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HISTORY 



OF THE 



FIRST BATTALION PENNSYLVANIA SIX 
MONTHS VOLUNTEERS 



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157 th Reaimenl: Pennsulvania 
Volunteer Infantru 




Six Months 



AND 

Three Years Service 

CIVIL WAR ' 
1565 - 1565 

Compiled by James M. Gibbs, Vice President Survivors' Association 

One Hundred and Eighty-Seventh Regiment Pennsylvania 

Volunteer Infantry. Harrisburg, Penn'a. 

1905 






Harrisburg, Pa.: 

Central Printing and Publishing House, 

1905. 



MAR 16 13C6 
D.otD, 



AUTHORIZATION 



Authority for the pubHcation of the History of the 187th 
Regiment. At the sixth annual meeting of the Survivors' Asso- 
ciation of the Regiment, held at Wellsboro, Pa., September 7, 
1904, the following resolution was adopted : 

Resolved, That the officers of the Association be authorized 
to prepare a suitable History of the 187th Regiment, and that the 
members of the Association be requested to help them by fur- 
nishing such historical data and incidents that they may have in 
their possession. Motion carried. 

We the undersigned officers of the Survivors' Association of 
the 187th Regiment, P. V. I., have examined the History of the 
Regiment, prepared by James M. Gibbs, Vice President of the As- 
sociation, and we have found it historically correct and accurate. 

William A. Stone, 
President of the Association. 

Jonathan Jessup, 
Secretary of the Association. 

F. K. Plover, 
Treasurer of the Association. 



TO THE LIVING OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY- 
SEVENTH REGIMENT PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS AND 
TO THE MEMORY OF ITS MANY GALLANT DEAD, THIS 
VOLUME IS DEDICATED 



PREFACE 

This volume contains the history of the One Hundred and 
Eighty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. 

This work needs no apology. It contains no wonderful ex- 
ploit; but a simple. story of the service of the Regiment, which has 
been written with but one end in view, that is to do justice to all. 
No doubt, many other Regiments performed more brilliant ser- 
vice ; but none bore more faithful allegiance to the great cause of 
the Constitution and the Union. In the qualities that make good 
soldiers — discipline, respect for superiors, perfection in drill, 
cleanliness, steadiness under fire, freedom from pillage, and manly 
endurance, under all the trying vicissitudes of war — the men of 
the 187th Pennsylvania Regiment had no superiors. 

This work has been made up from the diaries of the follow- 
ing members of the Regiment : Captain John E. Reilly, Lieuten- 
ant Samuel C. Ilgenfritz and Frederick K. Ployer, and from the 
personal recollections of the writer. 

We have also consulted Bates' History of the Pennsylvania 
Volunteers and the History of the 150th Regiment P. V., which 
was attached to the same Brigade. 

We are also under obligation to Major George W, Merrick, 
Lieutenant Frank J. Deemer and Lieutenant Jonathan J. Jessup 
for valuable assistance. The; Author. 



GENERAL INDEX 



List of Illustrations, 14 

Chapte:r I. 

The story of the First Battalion Pennsylvania Six Months' Vol- 
unteers — Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania — The formation 
of the Departments of Monongahela and Susquehanna. 
Governor Curtin's Proclamation — Formation of the Bat- 
talion ; its service in Pennsylvania — Muster out, January 
9, 1864, 17 

Chapte:r IL 

Roster of the First Battalion — Field and Staff Officers — Company 
A, Captain George W. Merrick; Company B, Captain 
David Z. Seip; Company C, Captain John R. Miles,. . 21 



Chapter IIL 

Company D, Captain William Young; Company E, Captain Wil- 
liam D. Snow ; Company F, Captain Joseph A. Ege ; Com- 
pany G, Lieutenant Samuel Boyd, 41 

Chapter IV. 

"A Roll of Honor" — A Roll of the members of the Regiment, 
killed in battle and those who died from wounds and 
disease, 67 

Chapter V. 

The 187th Regiment — Its formation — Enlistment of Companies 
A, B, C, D, E and F— General Order, No. 20— Department 
of the Susquehanna — Organization of Companies G, H, 
I, K — The assembling at Harrisburg, May 17, 1864, . . 77 



8 GKNKRAL INDEX 

Chapter VI. 

May 19th, leaving Harrisburg; arriving at Baltimore — Leaving 
Baltimore, arrival at Washington — Leaving Washington 
for Arlington Heights — Leaving Arlington, May 26th, for 
Alexandria — Embarking on transports — Down the Po- 
tomac and up the Rappahannock, to Port Royal, 79 

Chapter VIL 

Arrival at Port Royal, May 29th— Left Port Royal May 31st — 
Bowling Green — Mosby's Guerillas — Mattapony river — 
Picket firing at night — March resumed on the 2nd ; Com- 
panies A and B thrown out as skirmishers — Joined by the 
Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery and Twenty-first 
Cavalry — Beulah Church — Elliottville — Pawmunky River 
—Arrival at Cold Harbor, 81 

Chapter VHL 

Sunday, June 5th, marched all day — Mechanicsville — Shady 
Grove Church — Chickahominy River — Under fire at Cold 
Harbor — Assigned to the First Brigade, First Division, 
Fifth Army Corps — On the North bank of the Chicka- 
hominy river — Bottom Bridge — June 12th, on the picket 
line — Cross the Chickahominy near Long's Bridge — White 
Oak Swamp — Charles City Court House — Crossing the 
James River — The march to Petersburg, 85 

Chapter IX. 

In front of Petersburg, June 17th— In support of the Ninth Corps 
—The First baptism of blood — Death of Theodore Boyles 
and A. A. Wolf, of Company D— Moving into position— 
The bugle call at 3 p. m.— The terrible charge on "Rives 
Salient" — The story of the charge by Captain John E. 
Reilly — Description of the fight by Lieutenant Colonel 
Thomas Chamberlain, 150th P. V., 93 



GENERAL INDEX 9 

Chapter X. 

The battles of the trenches — Jerusalem Plank Road — Working on 
the entrenchments all night — Wounding of Captain George 
0. Lovett, of Compan}' K, and Sergeant William D. Rit- 
ner, of Company D, by Confederate Sharp Shooters — 
Wounding of John E. Roberts, by a piece of shell while 
at work on Fort Hell — Blowing up of Fort by the Ninth 
Corps, 103 

Chapter XI. 

The movement to the W^eldon railroad — Tearing up the road at 
the Yellow House — The movement to the right in support 
of the First Michigan — Moving into position — Loss of 
several men of Company D — In water all night — Cor- 
poral William A. Stone and several members of Company 
A close up a gap in the breastworks — Major Hooper, of 
the First Michigan, describes the fight on the picket line, 
the night of August 20th, and morning of 21st — Sunday 
morning, August 21st, by Captain John E. Reilly — Cap- 
ture of Confederate flags and prisoners — Shooting of Cap- 
tain Daily, by Confederate General Hay good — Movement 
to the left flank — Fortifying the line at White Farm, . . 115 

Chapter XII. 

The fight at Ream's Station — Building of Fort White — Move- 
ment to Vaughn's road, September i5-i6th, 126 

Chapter XIII. 

Transferred to the Department of Pennsylvania — Farewell to 
the Army of the Potomac — IMarch to City Point — Em- 
barked on transport for Washington — By rail to Philadel- 
phia — Arrival there September 27th — Breakfast at the 
Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon — March to Camp 
Cadwallader, 127 



GENERAL INDEX 



Chapter XIV. 



Funeral of Abraham Lincoln — Meeting the remains at the P. W. 
and B. depot — Escorting them to Independence Hall — On 
duty there all day Sunday — The march to the New York 
depot on Monday morning, 135 



Chapter XV. 

The Regiment on duty in Pennsylvania — Special Order No. 81 — 
The march to Spring Mills — Ordered to Harrisburg — 
Mustered out August 3, 1865, 139 



Chapter XVI. 

Inauguration of Governor William A. Stone — Formation of the 
Survivors' Association — Addresses of James M. Gibbs and 
Samuel C. Ilgenfritz — Roll of the members of the Regi- 
ment present at the Inauguration, 143 



Chapter XVII. 

Second Annual Reunion of the Association at Gettysburg, June 5, 
1900 — Address of Hon. William A. Stone, 165 



Chapter XVIII. 

Camp-fire at the Third Annual Reunion of the Association at 
Gettysburg — Address of Major George W. Merrick, 177 



Chapter XIX. 

Camp-fire at the Fourth Annual Reunion of the Association at 
Gettysburg, June 3, 1902 — Speech of Captain George G. 
Lovett, of Company K, and Comrade Frances M. Stoke, 
of Company D, 185 



GENSRAI, INDEX II 

Chapter XX. 

Camp-fire at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Association, at 
Wellsboro, Pa., September 7, 1904 — Addresses made by 
Comrades Lewis Rodenhoffer, Company F; Frederick K. 
Ployer, Company D ; Captain Ransford B. Webb, Com- 
pany I, and Henry M. Foot, Company A, 197 

Chapter XXI. 
Bill Blain and his mule, 213 

Chapter XXII. 

A complete Roster of the Officers of the Regiment — Roll of the 
members of the 187th Regiment, P. V. I., living thirty-nine 
years after muster out of service, 219 

Chapter XXIII. 

Roster of the Feild and Staff Officers— Companies A, B, C, D, E, 
F, G, H, I and K, 235 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



' Abraham Lincoln, Frontispiece 

General. Page. 

^A. G. Curtin, 17 

'' U. S. Grant, 19 

"' General George G. Meade, 33 

' General G. K. Warren, 35 

General Joshua L. Chamberlain, 53 

Line of March to Cold Harbor, 81 

^ Chicohominy Swamp, 84 

^ Nice Day on Picket, 88 

L Map Siege of Petersburg, 92 

, Tearing up Weldon Railroad, 114 

Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, 127 

' Camp Cadwallader, 129 

Lincoln's Hearse, 135 

: Bill Blain's Mule, 213, 218 

Field and Staff. 

Colonel John E. Parsons, 54 

Lieutentant Colonel Joseph A, Ege, 54 

Major George W. Merrick, 55> 74 

Major David Z. Seip, 56 

Major William J. Robinson, 56 

Surgeon John C. Fruit, 56 

Quartermaster Matthew H. McCall, 73 

Adjutant Jerome W. Henry, 73 

Hospital Steward George W. Kennedy, 73 

Assistant Surgeon W. W. Webb, 74 

Assistant Surgeon James T. Mahon, 74 

Assistant Surgeon Theodore Jacobs, 74 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 13 

Company A. Page. 

Captain Morgan Hart, 75 

Lieutenant Timothy B. Culver, 75 

Lieutenant William A. Stone, 7^ 

Corporal William A. Stone, 7^ 

Corporal John Henry, 75 

Corporal Henry M. Foot, 109 

Philander Bockus, 75 

Samuel S. Steel, "O 

Reuben H. Steel, "O 

William E. Dales, "o 

Wesley Saxbury, "O 

Robert Francis, ^^o 

Company B. 

Captain Samuel J. Adams, 1^2 

Lieutenant Samuel C. Ilgenfritz, (two), 112 

Lieutenant Jonathan J. Jessup, ^30 

Corporal George K. Grove, 1^2 

Musician Wilmot Ayres, ^^^ 

Corporal Lewis Milner, ^3^ 

Corporal John J. Hess, ^3^ 

Henry Gable, ^31 

Walter R. Ruby, ^3^ 

Joseph W. Campbell, ^32 

Milton B. Reynolds, ^32 

William H. Hamilton, ^32 

Otto Steininger, ^49 

George Berkheimer, ^-^^ 

Company C. 

Captain William Young ^5^ 

Lieutenant James Johnson, ^5° 

Lieutenant Orville D. Harder, ^5^ 

Sergeant A. B. Patton, ^5^ 

Corporal William E. Mohr, ^50 



14 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 

Page. 

Charles P. Harder, 151 

John H. Harder, 151 

James M. Gibbs (two), 152 

David H. Rank, 169 

Arthur F. Ahvard, 169 

John Waldron, 169 

John E. Roberts and John Sechler, 169 

Albert Werkheiser, 170 

William Bryant, 170 

John Sechler, 170 

William Nash, 170 

Peter M. Reed, 170 

Jacob Slack, 170 

Watkin Morgan, 171 

William Stewart, 171 

John J. Roderick, 171 

Thomas P. Morgan, 171 

James D. Ware, 171 

Charles S. Beaver, 172 

John O'Brian, 172 

John C. Devine, 172 

Nelson B. Case, 172 

Company D. 

Captain John E. Frymire, 189 

Lieutenant John S. Gore, 189 

Lieutenant Frank Best, 189 

Sergeant H. H. Peck, 189 

Sergeant James M. Kennedy, 189 

Corporal L. F. Moul, 191 

Corporal W. H. Cobaugh, 191 

Corporal Samuel Bricker, 191 

Corporal W. O. Trego, 192 

Musician Frank Stoke and Augustus Kyle, 192 

Robert McKeehan, 191 

Theodore Boyles, 191 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1 5 

Page. 

F. K. Ployer, 190 

Jonathan E. Ferree, 192 

Augustus G. Kyle, 192 

William Green, 192 

William R. Householder, 209 

Company E. 

James Dunn, 210 

H. B. Wilkinson, 211 

Company F. 

Captain John E. Reilly, 212 

Sergeant Gideon Myers and Corporal Eugene Lenhart, 229 

Corporal Eugene Lenhart, 229 

Corporal Eugene Lenhart and Isaac Snell, Co. C, 229 

Frank Snow, 229 

George W. Sneer, 229 

Company G. 

Captain William H. Carlin, 230 

Lieutenant Frank J. Deemer, 230 

Captain Carlin and Lieutenant Deemer, 230 

Sergeant John S. Jenkins, 231 

Sergeant John S. Jenkins, Sergeant Stephen M. Whitbeck, 

Sergeant Geo. Wolcot and Corp. John ]\Iontgomery, 231 

John W. White, 231 

Miner Naugle, 2^2 

Company H. 

Thomas B. McCord, 232 

John Woy, 249 

Lieutenant Daniel Keller, 250 

F. Finnecy, 250 

William N. Reynolds, 250 



l6 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 

Company I. Page 

Captain Ransford B. Webb, 251 

Robert M. Boyles, 252 

A. M. Landis, 252 

Sergeant John A. Steel, 252 

George N. Ashenfelder, 252 

Company K. 

Captain George G. Lovett, 269 

Lieutenant Alexander Blackburn, 270 

Lieutenant George S. Walker, 270 

Corporal John Dunn, 272 

Musician Samuel Lowery, 270 

Webster Spencer, 271 

Chas. B. Ellis, 271 

George Doan, 271 

Joseph O'Brian, 272 

Corporal Edwin Rodgers, 272 

George Grafus, 272 




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CHAPTER I. 



First Battalion, Pennsylvania Six-Months' Volunteb:j? 

Infantry. 

DURING the second year of the war, 1862, the southern 
border counties of Pennsylvania felt the hand of the Con- 
federate raiders. They descended first upon Chambers- 
burg, Franklin county, under "]eh" Stuart, with such stealth and 
celerity that they decamped with their spoils without resistance 
of any kind. This spread alarm among the people of those coun- 
ties, so easily accessible to such inroads, and proved to be the pre- 
cursor of other incursions, later the same year, and early in 1863, 
by the notorious McCausland and other predatory bands, who 
finally burned down the fair city of Chambersburg. 

The defeat suffered by the Army of the Potomac at Fred- 
ericksburg, and Chancellorsville, led to ambitious plans on the 
part of Lee, and it was conjectured that he would assume the of- 
fensive. The cavalry battle of Brandy Station revealed this in- 
tention, and the army of Northern Virginia soon began to enter the 
upper defiles of the Shenandoah Valley ; but its movements were 
screened by advance forces of cavalry appearing on the upper 
Potomac and in Maryland. This indicated a possible invasion 
of Pennsylvania. 

Accordingly, as a precautionary measure, and that the North 
might be prepared for the worst, by order of the War Depart- 
ment, of the 9th of June, 1863, two new military departments were 
established ; one with headquarters at Pittsburg, to be commanded 
by Major General William T. H. Brooks, and to be known as the 
Department of the Monongahela ; the other to have headquarters 
at Harrisburg, to be known as the Department of the Susquehanna, 
and to be commanded by Major General Darius N. Couch. These 
officers were authorized to organize Departmental Corps, and on 
assuming command they issued orders calling upon the people of 
the State to volunteer. To aid in this work. Governor Curtin 
issued the following proclamation on the 12th day of June, 1863: 



l8 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

In the Name and by the Authority of the Coininomvcaltli of Penn- 
sylvania, Executive Department, to all to wliom TJiese Pres- 
ents Shall Come, Greeting: 

Proclamation. 

Information has been received by the War Department, that 
a Rebel force composed of cavalry, artillery and mounted in- 
fantry, has been prepared for the purpose of making a raid into 
Pennsylvania. The President has therefore erected two new de- 
partments, one in Eastern Pennsylvania, to be commanded by 
Major General Darius N. Couch, the other in Western Penn- 
sylvania, to be commanded by Major General William T. H. 
Brooks. I earnestly invite the attention of the people of Penn- 
sylvania to the General Order issued by these officers upon as- 
suming command of their respective departments. 

The importance of immediately raising a sufficient force for 
the defence of the State cannot be over-rated. The Corps now 
proposed to be established will give pemianent security to our 
borders. 

I know too well the gallantry and patriotism of the freemen 
of this Commonwealth, to think it necessary to do more than 
commend this measure to the people, and earnestly urge them to 
respond to the call of the General Government and promptly fill 
the ranks of these Corps, the duties of which will be mainly the 
defense of our own homes, firesides and property from devas- 
tation. 

GIVEN under my hand, and the Great Seal of 
the State, at the city of Harrisburg, this 
twelfth day of June, in the year of our 
[Great Seal.] Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and 

sixty-three, and of the Commonwealth 
the eighty-seventh. 

Andrew G. Curtin, 

By the Governor: 

Eli Slifer, 

Secretary of the Commonwealth. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY IQ 

But few enlistments had been made under this call, when 
Lee's army had reached the borders of the State, and the emerg- 
ency call for ninety-day volunteers was made, which, in a few 
days, brought 40,000 men into the field. Seven companies had 
enlisted under the first call, which were organized as the First 
Battalion, Pennsylvania Six Months Volunteers. These com- 
panies were enlisted from different sections of the State and were 
mustered into the service on the following dates : 

Company A, Captain George W. Merrick, Tioga county, 
June 21, 1863. 

Company B, Captain David Z. Seip, York countv, June 23, 
1863. 

Company C, Captain John R. Miles, Philadelphia, June 23, 
1863. 

Company D, Captain Joseph F. Ramsey, Montour county, 
June 20, 1863. 

Company E, Captain W. F. Robinson, Philadelphia, June 24, 
1863. 

Company F, Captain Joseph A. Ege, Cumberland county, 
June 26, 1863. 

Company G, Lieutenant Samuel Boyd, Lancaster county, July 
8, 1863. 

The Battalion was at once formed with the following officers : 

Lieutenant Colonel, Joseph F. Ramsey. 
Major, William F. Robinson. 
Adjutant, Thomas E. Little. 
Quartermaster, Theophilus J. Foley 
Assistant Surgeon, Joshua R. Hays. 
Quartermaster Sergeant, Albert Hay. 

The Battalion was at once placed on duty in and around the 
city of Harrisburg, and was kept busy day and night. It looked 
after the large amount of Government stores at Camp Curtin, and 
other points in the city. It assisted in building Fort Washington, 



20 HISTORY OF iS/TH REGIMENT 

on the heights above Bridgeport, on the opposite side of the river, 
and several times it was sent up the Cumberland Valley to re- 
sist any advance made by the Rebels. 

After quiet had been restored along the border, and General 
Lee had returned to Virginia with his army, the Battalion was 
sent to different parts of the State to do guard and provost duty. 
Companies A, D, and part of Company F, were sent to Sunbury ; 
and Companies C and^E to Pottsville and vicinity, to suppress 
disturbances connected with the draft. 

Company A was later attached to General Couch's head- 
quarters at Chambersburg, Pa. Companies F, B and G were sent 
to Gettysburg, and assisted there in the care of the Government 
stores that had been left on the field at the time of the battle. 
Companies D and C were sent to the Antietam battle ground, 
where they remained for several weeks doing picket duty along 
the Potomac river, from Harper's Ferry to Shepherdtown. They 
remained there until late in November, when they were sent to 
the "Buttonwood" Barracks, in Philadelphia. Companies B and 
E were mustered out of the service on the third day of October, 
1863. The other five companies remained in the service until the 
ninth day of January, 1864 ; but before being mustered out a large 
number of the men of the First Battalion had re-enlisted for three- 
year service, and in a very short time six of the seven companies 
were in the service for three years, or during the war. This brief 
service and training enabled these companies to become the 
nucleus of a Regiment, hardened and effective from the day of 
its organization. The full roster of the Battalion will be found 
in the following Chapter. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTE^^R INFANTRY 



CHAPTER 11. 



RosTKR OF First Battalion, Pennsylvania Six Months' Vol- 
unteers. 

FIELD AND STAFF. 
Lieut. Col. Joseph F. Ramsey— June 22, 1863; promoted from 

Captain, Company D, July 9, 1863; transferred to 187th 

Regiment P. V., January, 1864. 
Major William F. Robinson— June 24, 1863; promoted from 

Captain Company E, July 9, 1863 ; mustered out with Bat- 
talion, January 9, 1864. 
Adjutant Thomas E. LiTTLE-July 9, 1863; transferred to 

187th Regiment P. V., January, 1864. 
Quartermaster Theophilus J. Foley-JuW 9, 1863; mustered 

out with Battalion, January 9, 1864. 
AssT. Surgeon Joshua R. HAYES-July 24, 1863 ; transferred to 

187th Regiment P. V., January, 1864. 
Quartermaster Sergt. Albert HAY-June 23, 1863; promoted 

from private Company B, July 15, 1863 ; not accounted for. 

COMPANY A. 

Capt. George W. Merrick— June 21, 1863; mustered out with 

Company, January 9, 1864. 
First Lieut. Cecil A. Dean— June 21, 1863; mustered out with 

Company, January 9, 1864. 
Second Lieut. Robert Young— June 23, 1863; mustered out 

with Company, January 9, 1864. 
First Lieut. Jerold Dennison— June 21, 1863; mustered out 

with Company, January 9, 1864. 



22 HISTORY OP 187TH REGIMENT 

Sergt. Ephraim Smith — June 21, 1863; promoted to Sergeant, 
July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, January 9, 1864. 

Sergt. David Dewey — ^June 21, 1863 ; promoted to Sergeant, July 
8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, January 9, 1864. 

Sergt. Alonzo Mack — June 21, 1863 ; promoted to Sergeant July 
8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, January 9, 1864. 

Corp. Lewis Demaux — June 23, 1863 ; promoted to Corporal, 
July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, January 9, 1864. 

Corp. Lyman D. Potter — June 21, 1863; promoted to Corporal, 
July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, January 9, 1864. 

Corp. Benjamin Clausee — June 21, 1863 ; promoted to Corporal, 
July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, January 9, 1864. 

Corp, SamuEE Morgan — June 21, 1863; discharged on Surgeon's 
certificate, September 26, 1863. 



Privates. 

Bush, Tunis — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Blough, John — June 2^, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

BuTEER, JosiAH — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Butler, Thomas J. — June 21, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

BowEN, Eugene L. — June 21, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Bacon, Aaron A. — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

BoETZ, Washington — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 23 

Catlin, Charles G. — June 21, 1863; absent; sick at muster out. 

Chase, William H. — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Carpenter, James — August 2, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Campbell, Edwin — June 23, 1863 : mustered out with Company 
January 9, 1864. 

Chubbick, Truman — June 23, 1863 ! mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Cline, John A. — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Donaldson, Jas. W. — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Dart, Chauncey — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Dibble, John E. — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Dean, Darius L. — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

English, John — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Ellis, Oscar F. — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Field, Charles M. — June 21, 1863; absent in arrest, at muster 
out. 

FoRNWALT, Allen — June 29, 1863 ; transferred to Company K, 

i8ist P. v., January 4, 1864. 
Green, William — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 

Januar>' 9, 1864. 

Greiner, William — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 



24 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

GlEason, Martin — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Harrison, Wm. M. — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Hart, Nathaniel — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Henry, OrvillE — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Henry, Richard — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Hart, Morgan — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Hartman, Amos C. — June 2"], 1863; transferred to Company K, 
P. v., January 6, 1864. 

Ires, Albert — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Jones, William D. — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Kimball, George — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Keller, Valentine V. — June 22, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

LachEy, Albert L. — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Leslie, David B. — June 22, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Light, Casper K. — June 22, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

MoRSEMAN, Joseph — June 21, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 2$ 

Moore, William — July lo, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Miller, Samuel G. — June 22, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Martin, John — June 21, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary, 9, 1864. 

Myers, Edwin — June 21, 1863; transferred to U. S. Cavalry, 
January 5, 1864. 

Miller, William H. — June 29, 1863; transferred to Company 
K, 181 St P. v., January 4, 1864. 

Naptzer, Adam — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Naftzer, Benjamin — June 22, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Oakum, Thomas — June 29, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Patterson, Wm. W. — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

PooRMAN, Henry M. — June 22, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Palmer, Joseph — July 10, 1863; discharged on Surgeon's certifi- 
cate, September 18, 1863. 

RoBBiNS, David T. — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Shellman, Welcome — July 10, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Scott, John P. — June 2.^, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Sneer, George W. — August 2, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 



26 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Snavely, Peter D. — June 22, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Shumway, Chas. L. — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Sears, Henry — June 21, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

StarwEather, S. — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Spotts, Samuel — June 2^, 1863; transferred to i8ist P. V., Jan- 
uary 4, 1864. 

Trael, Samuel — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Tabor, George — June 2-^, 1863 ; Absent, sick at muster out. 

Towner, Benj. F. — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Webster, Edwin — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

WiLLARD, Hiram — June 21, 1863; absent on detached service at 
muster out. 

West, Oren — July 10, 1863 ! mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Walburn, Michael — July 22, 1863 ; transferred to Company K, 
181 St Regiment P. V., January 5, 1864. 

Webster, Oziah — July 21, 1863 ; discharged on Surgeon's certifi- 
cate, October 28, 1863. 

Williams, Benj. — July 21, 1863; transferred to U. S. Cavalry, 
January 5, 1864. 

COMPANY B. 

Capt. David Z. Seip — June 29, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

First Lieut. Matthew McCall — June 29, 1863 ; mustered out 
with Company, October 3, 1863. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 2/ 

Second Lieut. Samuel J. Adams — June 29, 1863 ! nuistered out 
with Company, October 3, 1863. 

First Sergt. John M. Torbet — June 29, 1863 ; mustered out 
with Company, October 3, 1863. 

Sergt. John P. S. Aswald — June 23, 1863; mustered out with 
Company, October 3, 1863. 

Sergt. Jonathan J. Jessup — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, October 3, 1863. 

Sergt. Daniel Keller — ^June 23, 1863 ; promoted to Sergeant, 
July I, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, October 3, 1863. 

Sergt. William W. Torbet — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, October 3, 1863. 

Corp. Joseph E. Freestone — June 23, 1863; promoted to Cor- 
poral, June 25, 1863; mustered out with Company, October 
3, 1863. 

Corp. John A. Channell — June 24, 1863 ; promoted to Corporal 
June 25, 1863; mustered out with Company, Oct. 3, 1863. 

Corp. Francis A. Belt — June 23, 1863; promoted to Corporal 
June 25, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Oct. 3, 1863. 

Corp. Henry L. Rhoads — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, October 3, 1863. 

Corp. John Brillhart — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Corp. William C. Fisher — June 23, 1863; mustered out with 
Company, October 3, 1863. 

Corp. Thomas Rupert — June 23, 1863 ; promoted to Corporal, 
August I, 1863; mustered out with Company, Oct. 3, 1863. 

Corp. Henry T, Goodling — June 23, 1863 ; promoted to Corporal 
August 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, October 3, 
1863. 



28 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Musician Howard Welsh — June 23, 1863 ; absent sick at muster 
out. 

Musician Jacob Harris — June 23, 1863 ; promoted to Musician 
August I, 1863; mustered out with Company, October 3, 
1863. 

Privates. 

Armprester, George — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Amig, Augustus — June 23, 1863 5 mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Andrews, Albert J. — June 21, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Aloway, Thomas — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Blain, William H. — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Brennaman, H. — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Brown, Edward C. — July 17, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Collins, James C. — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company^ 
• October 3, 1863. 

Campbell, John — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Cox, Stephen — June 23, 1863 ; deserted September 27, 1863. 

EnglES, Jacob — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company,. 
October 3, 1863. 

EbersolE, Sylvester — July 28, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Fethers, Owen — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTRER INFANTRY 29 

FrEY, Thaddeus — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Freestone, James E.— June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Grove, George— June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 

October 3, 1863. 
Good, Ephraim— June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 

October 3, 1863. 
Grover, Charles— June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 

October 3, 1863. 

Gable, John — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Octo- 
ber 3, 1863. 

Hay, George L.— June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Hunter, Joseph T.— June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Hamilton, Wm. W.— June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Harkins, William— June 23, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Hay, Albert— June 23, 1863 ; promoted to Quartermaster Ser- 
geant July 15, 1863. 

Johnston, Ovid M.— June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

KiSLER, Henry M.— June 23, 1863 ; absent, sick at muster out. 

Keefer, Samuel— June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

KisTER, John— June 29, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Octo- 
ber 3, 1863. 

KiBLER, Charles P.— June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 



30 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Kaufman, Wm. H. — June 23, 1863; deserted September 18, 1863. 

Lehr, Philip — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

LiGGiT, Robert C. — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Livingston, John — June 22^, 1863;. mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Lehman, Charles — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Lloyd, Manassah — June 23, 1863 ; absent on furlough, at muster 
out. 

Meyers, Joseph L. — July 28, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Milner, Lewis H. — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Meyers, Augustus — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Meyers, Isaac L. — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Meyers, Harvey M. — June 23, 1863; discharged on Surgeon's 
certificate, September 7, 1863. 

McDermott, Wm. J. — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

McPherson, S. a. W. — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

RiCKLEY, John — ^June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Rowland, John — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Sourbier, Samuel — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 3I 

Seltzer, John — June 2^, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Saube, Frank L. — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Shellenberger, Jos. — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Strayer, John — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Shetrone, Martin H. — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Sh ELLEN BERGER, J. B. — June 2'i^, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Shemberger, Joseph — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Trout^ Levie — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Octo- 
ber 3, 1863. 

Torbert, James B, — July 28, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Wilhelm, Wm. H. — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Wagner, Louis E. — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Wolf, Jacob H. — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Wales, Thomas M. — June 23, 1863 ; absent on furlough at 
muster out. 

Wales, John G. — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Wood, Henry — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 



32 HISTORY OP 187TH REGIMENT 

Wilson, Henry — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Wiley, John S. — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Walters, Jacob H. — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Young, Henry — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Zellers, Louis — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

COMPANY C. 

Capt. John R. MilRS — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

First Lieut, William S. Rufe — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out 
with Company, January 9, 1864. 

Second Lieut. John J. Derr — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, January 9, 1864. 

First Sergt. Michael Faulker — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out 
with Company, January 9, 1864. 

Sergt. Matthew Swire — June 23, 1863; mustered out with 
Company, January 9, 1864. 

Sergt. Charles Hamer — June 21, 1863; promoted to Sergeant 
October 12, 1863; mustered out with Company, January 
9, 1864. 

Sergt. William Zanes — June 23, 1863; promoted to Sergeant 
October 12, 1863; mustered out with Company, January 
9, 1864. 

Sergt. Charles Grafley — June 23, 1863; mustered out with 
Company, January 9, 1864. 

Corp. Robert Crawford — June 23, 1863; mustered out with 
Company, January 9, 1864. 




GENERAL OEORGE G. MEADE. 




MAJOR-GENERAL GOrVERNEUR K. WARRICX 
Coviviandcr tiftli Amiv Corps, /sv,/ 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 37 

Corp. William White — June 2^, 1863; promoted to Corporal 
October 29, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, January 
9, 1864. 

Corp. George Burvvell — June 23, 1863; promoted to Corporal 
October 29, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, January 
9, 1864. 

Corp. James McElweE — ^June 2}^, 1863 ; promoted to Corporal 
October 29, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, January 
9, 1864. 

Musician Lot Kochel — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Privates. 

Allen, John — June 23, 1863 I mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary, 9, 1864. 

Bailey, Edward — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company ; 
January 9, 1864. 

Bailey, Joseph — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Black, Charles — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

BoTHWELL, James — June 23, 1863 ; absent in arrest at muster out. 

Boyd, Samuel — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Crawford, Alexander — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Cook, William — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Clark, Frances — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

DuNLAP, Thomas — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out witli Company, 
January 9, 1864. 
3 



38 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Dever, Thomas — June 2t„ 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Early, Thomas — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

GiLLis, Joseph — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Grinder, Thomas — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Glenn, Patrick — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

GrEJBn, Charles — June 2;^, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Grafeley, James — June 2T„ 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

GooDEx, Lewis — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Harris, Thomas — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Harris, John — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Hughes, Bernard— June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Johnson, William — June 2^, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Johnston, John — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Kirker, Philip — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Kain, Thomas — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 39 

Kain, Joseph — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Little, Stagey — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Marshall, David — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Martin, William — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company,. 
January 9, 1864. 

Munday, John — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Marshall, Josephus — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

MuNYON, Samuel — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Miller, William — June 23, 1863 ; discharged on Surgeon's cer- 
tificate August 9, 1863. 

Miller, James — June 23, 1863 5 discharged on Surgeon's cer- 
tificate August 24, 1863. 

McGrath, Abraham — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

McKiNNEY, William — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

McCoNNELL, James — June 22,, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

McClay, Charles — June 2^, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

McAnnalley, Samuel — June 2t„ 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Neil, Joshua E. — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 



40 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

O'Brian, Patrick — June 23, 1863; died at Philadelphia, Pa., 
December 22, 1863. 

Pauling, Euas — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Press, George — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Reid, Alexander — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Rutherford, John — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

RiNGLAND, Ab'm — June 23, 1863 ; died at Philadelphia, Pa., date 
unknown. 

SpERRY, Patrick — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Stewart, Robert — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Toner, James — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Wilcox, James — June 23, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

WiLBER, Henry — June 23, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 41 

CHAPTER III. 



COMPANY D. 
Capt. Joseph F. RAMSEY-June 22, 1863; promoted to Lieut. 

Colonel, July 9, 1863. 
Capt. Wiluam YouNG-June 22, 1863; promoted from First 
Lieut. July 9, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, January 
9, 1864. 
First Lieut. OrvillE D. HARDER-July 6, 1863 ; promoted from 
Second Lieut. July 9, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 
Second Lieut. George G. LovETT-June 20, 1863; promoted 
from private, July 9, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 
First Sergt. James JoHNSON-June 30, 1863; promoted from 
private, July 9, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, January 
9, 1864. 
SERGT. Joseph A. CLARK-June 22, 1863; mustered out with 

Company, January 9, 1864. 
SERGT. William WALLACE-June 22, 1863; mustered out with 

Company, January 9, 1864. 
Sergt Thos. C. HuLLiHEN-June 30, 1863; promoted to Ser- 
geant December i, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 
SERGT. Alexander HoEFNER-June 20, 1863 ; promoted to Ser- 
geant July 9, 1863; mustered out with Company. January 
9, 1864. 
Corp. Wm. R. Jenkins— June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 



42 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Corp. William R. Woods — June 20, 1863 ! mustered out with 
Company, January 9, 1864. 

Corp. William Wright — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, January 9, 1864. 

Corp. Sampson Pickins — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, January 9, 1864. 

Corp. William H. Cool — June 20, 1863 ; transferred to Company 
C, 187th P. v., January 6, 1864. 

Corp, Lambert Snyder — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Corp. Seth K. Sharpless — June 20, 1863 ; transferred to Com- 
pany C, 187th P. v., January 6, 1864. 

Corp. Jeremiah Love — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Musician Peter Harder — June 22, 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, January 9, 1864. 

Musician George O'Conner — June 22, 1863; discharged on 
Surgeon's certificate, October 6, 1863. 

Privates. 

Alwood, Arthur — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Andrews, William — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Alexander, Park — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Aten, David — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Ammerman, Oak'y V. — June 30, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 43 

Best^ James J. — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Blocksage, Sylvester — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Com-, 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Bryant, William — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Brace, Henry E. — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Bookmiller, John — June 25, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Bright, Philip — June 22, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Cum MINGS, Wm. J. — June 20, 1863 : mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Cox, John — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

CoNRADE, Jacob — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Caslin, Michael — June 22, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Cartwright, Ab'm. B. — June 25, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Cook, Ruben — June 20, 1863 ; died at Danville, Pa., Oct. 11, 1863. 

Deen, John — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

DivEL, Joseph — June 22, 1863; mustered out with Company. 

January 9, 1864. 
Deshay, Wesley — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 

Januarv- 9, 1864. 
Devine, Henry — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 

January 9, 1864. 



44 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Evans, Lewis — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
Januar}- 9, 1864. 

EvERHART, William — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, Januar}^ 9, 1864. 

Elliott, William — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Evans, Edward — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Evans, John R. — June 25, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

EcKERT, Samuel — June 20, 1863; transferred to Company C, 
187th P. v., January 6, 1864. 

Fox, John — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

FuNSTON, Charles R. — June 20, 1863; transferred to Company 
C, 187th P. v., January 6, 1864. 

GiBBS, James — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Geist, Wesley — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Gandeblue, Joseph — June 20 1863; transferred to Company C, 
187th P. v., January 6, 1864. 

Gearhart, Bon. R. — June 20, 1863; discharged on Surgeon's 
certificate, October 6, 1863. 

Harris, William — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Hale, John — June 25, 1863; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Heffler, Jacob W. — June 20, 1863; transferred to Company C, 
187th P. v., January 6, 1864. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 45 

Harder, J. Henry — June 20, 1863; transferred to Company C,. 
187th P. v., January 6, 1864. 

Henry, John — June 20, 1863; transferred to Company C, 187th 
P. v., January 6, 1864. 

Irvin, John C. — June 20, 1863; transferred to Company C, 187th 
P. v., January 6, 1864. 

Jackson, Caleb — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Jones, Robert O. — June 25, 1863; absent on detached service at 
muster out. 

Lawrence, Jacob — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January- 9, 1864. 

LiBHART, Hugh P. — June 20, 1863; transferred to Company C, 
187th P. v., January 6, 1864. 

Lewis William — June 20, 1863; transferred to Company C 
187th P. v., January 6, 1864. 

Miller, Franklin — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Mellon, Gideon — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Morgan, Benjamin — July 2, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Moore, David — June 20, 1863 ; discharged, date unknown. 

Nash, William — June 20, 1863; transferred to Company C, 
187th P. v., January 6, 1864. 

Purcell, Charles — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Paugh, Robert — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Purcell, William C— June 20, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 



46 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Petryski, Frederick — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

PuLLiN, John — June 20, 1863; transferred to Company C, 187th 
P. v., January 6, 1864. 

RocKAFELLER, Frank — June 25, 1863 ; transferred to Company 
C, 187th P. v., January 6, 1864. 

RiDGEWAY, Warren — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Roberts, Josiah — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Rodenhoffer, Lewis — July 2, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

SiMiNGTON, Wm. M. — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Sneel, Isaac — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Scott, John — June 20, 1863 ; absent, sick at muster out. 

Slack, John W. — June 25, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Thomas, William — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Treas, William — June 22, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

VoGLE, William — June 25, 1863 ; transferred to Company C, 
187th P. v., January 6, 1864. 

Williams, Benjamin — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Williams, John D. — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 47 

COMPANY E. 

Capt. Wm. F. Robinson — June 24, 1863; promoted to Major, 
July 9, 1863. 

Capt. William D. Snow — June 24, 1863 ; promoted from First 
Lieut., October 3, 1863. 

First Lieut. James Murtland — June 24, 1863 ; promoted from 
Second Lieut., July 9, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Second Lieut. Paul L. Levis — July 9, 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, October 3, 1863. 

First Sergt. John Downs — June 24, 1863 ; promoted from Ser- 
geant, September 5, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Sergt, Patrick Powers — June 24, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Sergt. William Grey — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Sergt. Patrick Carey — June 24, 1863 ; promoted from Corporal, 
September 6, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, October 
3, 1863. 

Sergt. Charles Walters — June 24. 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, October 3, 1863. 

Corp. Joseph Wilde — June 24, 1863; promoted to Corporal, July 
15, 1863; mustered out with Company, October 3. 1863. 

Corp. Howard W. Palmer — June 24, 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, October 3, 1863. 

Corp. Charles Stackhouse — June 24, 1863; mustered out with 
Company, October 3, 1863. 

Corp. Peter Jacobus — September 25. 1863; mustered out with 
Company, October 3, 1863. 



48 HISTORY OP 187TH REGIMENT 

Corp. Robert Davis — June 24, 1863; promoted to Corporal July 
15, 1863; mustered out with Company, October 3, 1863. 

Corp. Hugh Kelly — September 25, 1863; mustered out with 
Company, October 3, 1863. 

Musician Peter Dorris — June 24, 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, October 3, 1863. 

Privates. 

BuRSON, William — June 24, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Buckley, Curnal — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Company,. 
October 3, 1863. 

Carrall, William J. — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

CuRRiN, John — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Company,. 
October 3, 1863. 

Conner, Joseph — September 25, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Doyle, James — June 24, 1863 ; mustered out with Company,. 
October 3, 1863. 

DoHERTY, James — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Downey, John — September 25, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Diamond, James — June 25, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Duff, Edward — September 25, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Eldridge, William — June 24, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Ellis, Robert — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 49 

Foley, Patrick — June 24, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Fox, Patrick — June 24, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Gallagher, Charles — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Galbraith, Alex. — June 24, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

GiLKiNSON, John E. — June 24, 1863; died at Harrisburg, Pa., 
July 7, 1863. 

Ganster, John — June 24, 1863 ; deserted June 24, 1863. 

Hall, Samuel — June 24, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Hershberg, Charles — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Haines, Patrick — June 24, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Haws, John — June 24, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Octo- 
ber 3, 1863. 

Hubert, William A. — June 24, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Hall, Eugene — June 24, 1863 ; deserted June 24, 1863. 

Johnston Taylor — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Jenkins, John — June 24, 1863 ; deserted July 27, 1863. 

Kates, John L. — June 24, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 

October 3, 1863. 
Keever, Jacob — June 24, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 

October 3, 1863. 
Lambert, John — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Company, 

October 3, 1863. 



50 HISTORY OF iSjTH REGIMENT 

LiNiHAN, Jerry — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Lynch, Anthony — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

MooRE, John S. — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

MuNYON, John F. — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Meyers, Theodore — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Moore, Zachariah — June 24, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Mockerman, John C. — June 24, 1863 ; deserted June 24, 1863. 

M'Laughlin, Samuel — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

M'QuisTON, Alex. — June 24, 1863; discharged on Surgeon's cer- 
tificate, August 2-j, 1863. 

M'Aran, James D. — June 24, 1863; discharged on Surgeon's cer- 
tificate, September 22, 1863. 

M'Garagen, James — June 24, 1863 ; deserted June 24, 1863. 

M'Laughlin, Wm. — ^June24, 1863; deserted September 13, 1863. 

Nally, Joseph — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Nabey, John C. — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

O'Bryan, John — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Company, 

October 3, 1863. 
Phillips, Isaac N. — June 24, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 

October 3, 1863. 
RiDGWAY, MosES C. — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Company, 

October 3, 1863. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 5I 

Roberts, Samuel — June 24, 1863; deserted June 24, 1863. 

SharpE, Isaac E. — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Shields, Matthew — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Sample, John — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Sommerville, John — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Slack, James F. — June 24, 1863 ; deserted June 24, 1863. 

Thompson, James — June 24, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Tracey, Charles — June 24, 1863 ; deserted June 24, 1863. 

WiCKERSHAM, Milt. — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, October 3, 1863. 

Wilson, Jacob — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

Whiteman, John — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

William, Richard — June 24, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 

Young, David — June 24, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
October 3, 1863. 

COMPANY F. 

Capt. Joseph A. Ege— June 26, 1863 ; promoted from First Lieut., 

July 13, 1863; mustered out with Company, January 9, 

1864. 
First Lieut. William Venard — June 26, 1863 ; promoted from 

Second Lieut., July 13, 1863; mustered out with Company, 

January 9, 1864. 



52 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Second Lieut, Harrison Trego — June 27, 1863; promoted from 
First Sergt., July 14, 1863 '■> mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

First Sergt. Geo. B. Waggoner — June 27, 1863 ; promoted from 
Sergt., July 14, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Sergt. Leon's M'Cullough — June 26, 1863; mustered out with 
Company, January 9, 1864. 

Sergt. William J. Mateer — June 27, 1863 ; promoted from Cor- 
poral, June 30, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, January 
9, 1864. 

Sergt. Emanuel Gross — June 26, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Sergt. John E. Frymire — June 27, 1863; transferred to Com- 
pany D, 187th P. v., January 10, 1864. 

Corp. William H. Burtnett — June 27, 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, January 9, 1864. 

Corp. Leander Palm — June 26, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

€oRP. William McMorrow— June 27, 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, January 9, 1864. 

Corp. William A. Lindsey — June 27, 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, January 9, 1864. 

€orp. William D. Ritner— June 26, 1863 ; transferred to Com- 
pany D, 187th P. v., January 10, 1864. 

Corp. Henry H. Peck— June 26, 1863; transferred to Com- 
pany D, 187th P. v., January 10, 1864. 

Corp. Ruben K. Allison — July 20, 1863; transferred to Com- 
pany D, 187th P. v., January 10, 1864. 

Corp. Scott Randell— June 27, 1863; transferred to Com- 
pany D, 187th P. v., January 10, 1864. 




MAJOR C.HXF.KAI. JOSIILA II. CI 1 AM HI- RLAIX. 
Coiiniunnicr I'irst Ihii^adc, l-'irst Piiision. l-'iftli .Iniiy Corf^s. 




MAJOR GEORGE W. MERRICK. 
Historian, .S'/z/t/t'imw' .Issociatioii. 



f 








1 and 2 CULUXl'L JOUX Iv TAKSOX; 
3 LIEUTENANT JOSEPH E. ECE. 




I SURGEON JOHN C. I-KL IT. j MAJOR D. Z. SEIP. 

.3 MAJOR Wll.lJAM J. ROBINSON. 
First Battalion. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 57 

Musician Alexander Sharp — June 27, 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, January 9, 1864. 

Musician Frances M. Stoke — June 26, 1863; transferred to 
Company D, 187th P. V., January 10, 1864. 

Privates. 

Allen, Jesse K. — June 26, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Allen, David R. — June 26, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Breckenridge, Alfred — June 26, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Breckenridge, John — June 26, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, Januar}' 9, 1864. 

Bricker, David— June 26, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

BoYLES, James D. — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

BoYLES, Robert M. — June 26, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Bp:elman, Christian — July i, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Bricker, Samuel — June 26, 1863; transferred to Company D, 
187th P. v., January 10, 1864. 

BoYLES, Theodore — June 2"], 1863 ; transferred to Company D, 
187th P. v., January 10, 1864. 

BixLER, Andrew — June 26, 1863; transferred to Company D, 
187th P. v., January 10, 1864. 

CocAUGH, Henry — June 26, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Caldwell, Samuel B. — June 29, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 
4 



58 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Carl, Isaac — June 26, 1863; transferred to Company D, 187th 
P. v., January 10, 1864. 

Dewalt, William A. — June 26, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

DiLLER„ Andrew — July 4, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

DiLLER, William H. — July 4, 1863; discharged August 15, 1863. 

FerrEe, Jonathan E. — June 2"], 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

French, William A. — June 26, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Glauser, Stacy G. — June 26, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Grub, John — June 2'], 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Gampher, William — June 26, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Green, Robert W. — July 20, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Hemminger, J. D. — July 22, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Hemminger, J. B. — July 22, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Hardy, Henry — June 26, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Harman, George R. — June 27, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Hassinger, William— July 4, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Hamilton, Alex. H. — July 20, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 59 

Racket^ Thom'n R. — July 20, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Householder, William — June 26, 1863; transferred to Com- 
pany D, 187th P. v., January 10, 1864. 

Henry, William A. — June 26, 1863 ; transferred to Company 
D, 187th P. v., January 10, 1864. 

Hendricks, Amos J. — June 29, 1863; died at Hagerstown, Md., 
January i, 1864. 

James, Wilmer — June 26, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Johnson, William — June 26, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Jones, Peter — June 26, 1863; transferred to Company D, 187th 
P. v., January 10, 1864. 

Keck, Aaron — June 27, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

KammERER, Mat. — June 26, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Mell, Edward A. — June 26, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Maul, Lewis T. — ^July 20, 1863; transferred to Company D, 
187th P. v., January 10, 1864. 

Miller, Jacob A. — July 12, 1863; transferred to Company D, 
187th P. v., January 10, 1864. 

Mitten, William A. — July 17, 1863 ; transferred to Company D, 
187th P. v., January 10, 1864. 

Meyers, Henry — June 26, 1863 ; deserted July 10, 1863. 

McLaughlin, Daniel — June 26, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

McWiLLiAMS, Dalb't — June 27, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 



6o HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

McKeehan, Robert M. — July 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Shover, Eli — June 26, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Shover, John — June 26, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Sheaffer, John — June 26, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

SheafFER, William B. — July 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Smith, Henry A. — June 27, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Smith, David H. — June 28, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Strohm, Benj. F. — June 26, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Steel, John A. — June 26, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Sells, John A. — June 26, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Swisher, Peter — June 2"], 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Sharp, Samuel — July i, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Stitzel, Jacob — July 20, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Snyder, William H. — July 20, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Sheaffer, Joseph — July i, 1863; transferred to Company D, 
187th P. v., January 10, 1864. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 6l 

StavER, Levi— June 26, 1863 ; transferred to Company D, 187th 

P. v., January 10, 1864. 
Shaw, Joseph— July i, 1863; transferred to Company D, 187th 

P. v., January 10, 1864. 
Turbit, George A.— June 26, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 

January 9, 1864. 
Tritt, John B.— June 26, 1863; mustered out with Company, 

January 9, 1864. 
Thompson, John C— July 12, 1863; transferred to Company D, 

187th P. v., January 10, 1864. 
Trego, William O.— July 14, 1863 ; transferred to Company D, 

187th P. v., January 10, 1864. 
Weaver, Philip— June 26, 1863; mustered out with Company, 

January 9, 1864. 
Wire, John— July 16, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Williams, Jacob S.— July 16, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Watson, Christopher— June 26, 1863 ; transferred to Company 
D, 187th P. v., January 10, 1864. 

Ward, John— July 12, 1863; transferred to Company D, 187th 
P. v., January 10, 1864. 

COMPANY G. 

First Lieut. Samuel Boyd— July 8, 1863; mustered out with 
Company, January 9, 1864. 

First Sergt. John S. Boyd— July 8, 1863; mustered out with 
Company, January 9, 1864. 

Sergt. James H. BoothE— July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 



62 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Sergt. Samuel Seiple — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Sergt. Almus L. Watson — July 8, 1863; mustered out with 
Company, January 9, 1864. 

Sergt. John J. Long — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Corp. Samuel H. Conner — July 8, 1863; mustered out with 
Company, January 9, 1864. 

Corp. James P. Evans — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Corp. Samuel J. Boyde — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Corp. Hugh R. Fulton — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Corp. Albert Myers — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Corp. Bicknell A. Boyce — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Corp. Thomas H. Collins — July 8, 1863; mustered out with 
Company, January 9, 1864. 

Privates. 

Bare, Joshua — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Burns, Daniel — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, .1864. 

Black, William — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Burns, Henry — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Burke, Henry — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 63 

Bruce, John — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Bruce, James — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Coons, Isaac — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Clark, Rutter — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Clark, Robert J. — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Dejever, David — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

EvviNG, S. NeepER — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Esburn, John — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Eckman, John — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Graybill, John — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Hambleton, B. Kins. — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Jones, John T. — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Lewis, John C. — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Lefever, Benjamin — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Linton, Robert — July 8, 1863: mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 



64 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Long, George F. — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Maxwell, Sanders — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

MooRE, David — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Martin, Samuel — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Meagher, James— July 8, 1863 ; deserted July 29, 1863. 

McMiNEMY, Hugh — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

McVey, Stephen D. — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Nelson, Stephen — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Neeper, John S. — July 8, 1863; died at Harrisburg, Pa., Septem- 
ber 9, 1863. 

Ross, John S. — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864, 

RuTTER, John — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Risk, William — July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Reede, William— July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Redman, William — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Redman, Jacob — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Sutton, George — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 65 

SwEiGARD, Benjamin — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

SvvEiGAbD, Henry — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Shrimp, John — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Company, Jan- 
uary 9, 1864. 

Shoef, Frederick — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

SeiplE, William — July 8, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Tennis, William— July 8, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 

Thomas, N. Webster — July 8, 1863; mustered out wnth Com- 
pany, January 9, 1864. 

Todd, Thaddeus— July 8, 1863; discharged on Surgeon's Cer- 
tificate, January 9, 1864. 

Watson, Elias M.— July 8, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
January 9, 1864. 



(^ HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 



CONTENDS HE WAS YOUNGEST SOLDIER. 



Latest Applicant for That Honor is C. P. Harder, Dan- 
ville's Postmaster. — Enlisted at Age of Ten. 

Special Dispatch to The North American. 

Danville, Pa., Dec. 26. 

The distinction of having among its citizens the youngest 
soldier who served during the Civil War undoubtedly belongs to 
Danville. It is true the honor is contested by other localities, but 
in every instance where the facts are verified it is found the young- 
est soldier went into service when about 12 years old, rarely below 
that age. 

The Danville claimant is C. P. Harder, who enlisted at the 
age of ID years and 6 months. He was the youngest of five 
brothers, all of whom entered the Union army. 

Mr. Harder spent more than two years in the service and 
had the honor of being one of the boys detailed to drum on the 
occasion of Abraham Lincoln's funeral. 

Mr. Harder is a member of the Montour county bar. He 
served a term as Sheriff. He was a member of the Danville 
School Board and served three years as its President. He is now 
Postmaster. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEErR INFANTRY 67 



CHAPTER IV. 



A ROLL OF HONOR. 

A List of Those Who Were Killed, or Died From Wounds Re- 
ceived in Action, or Died From Disease. 

These paid the last full measure of devotion that the na- 
tion might live : 

Company A. 

Charles Shumway— Died at City Point, Va., August 27, 1864. 
Albert Ires — Died June 19th, of wounds received June 18, 1864, 

in front of Petersburg, Va. 
John Aylsworth — Killed at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 
Leonard W. Boatman— Killed at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 
Delanne A. Catlin — Died July 3rd, of wounds received June 18, 

1864, at Petersburg, Va. 
William Chase — Died at Harrisburg, Pa., July 4, 1864. 
Samuel Clark — Killed at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 
Cyrus Dort— Died at Philadelphia, Pa., July 3, 1864, of wounds 

received in action. 
Ashabel Frost— Died at Philadelphia, Pa., September 12, 1864, 

of wounds received in action. 
Thomas Golden— Died at Philadelphia, Pa., August 25, 1864. 
Andrew Green — Died at Philadelphia, Pa., July 9, 1864. 
Benjamin F. Goodwin — Died at Philadelphia, Pa., April 6, 1865. 
Edward O. Lawyton — Died at Philadelphia, Pa., November 29, 

1864. 
John Mann — Died at City Point, Va., August 9, 1864. 
John D. Morton — Died at Philadelphia. Pa.. August 25. 1864. of 

wounds received in action. 
John McGuire— Died at Washington, D. C, June 8, 1864. 
William Oberie— Killed at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 
Charles J. Potter— Died at Harrisburg. Pa.. March 26. 1864. 



68 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

James Phipps — Died July ii, 1864, of wounds received in action, 
William Sturrock — Died at New York, August 24, 1864. 
Oliver Stark— Died October 27, 1864. 
Nicholas Swerger — Died July 21, 1864, of wounds received in 

action. 
John J. Travis — Killed at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 

Company B. 

Samuel Keefer — Died at York, Pa., April 15, 1864. 

John B. Shillinberger — killed at Weldon Railroad, Va., August 
20, 1864. 

Joseph A. Andrews — Killed at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 

Simon Berger — Died June 20th, of wounds received in action^ 
June 18, 1864. 

John Bowen — Died at Gouldsboro, Pa., August 21, 1864. 

John Dugan — Died at Philadelphia, Pa., November 3, 1864. 

Fred Eshenbach — Died June 19th, of wounds received at Peters- 
burg, Va., June 18, 1864. 

Charles Grover — Died at Philadelphia, Pa., January 5, 1865. 

WilHam J. C. Johnson — Died June 30th, of wounds received at 
Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 

William W. Jones — Died October 2nd, of wounds received July 
10, 1864. 

Henry Landis — Died on U. S. transport ; date unknown. 

Abraham L. Pyle — Died at City Point, Va., August i, 1864. 

Michael G. Seifert — Died at Harrisburg, Pa., February 24, 1864. 

Samuel Sourbeer — Died June 19th, of wounds received at Peters- 
burg, Va., June 18, 1864. 

Lewis Sporleader — Died at City Point, Va., June 19th, of wounds 
received June 18, 1864, at Petersburg, Va. 

William H. Torbert — Died July 7th, at Alexandria, Va., of 
wounds received at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 

John Wright — Killed at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 

John G. Walls— Killed at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 



pennsylvania volunteer infantry 69 

Company C. 

James B. Moore— Killed at Petersburg, Va., June i8, 1864. 
William Craig— Died at Williamsport, Pa., April 12, 1864. 
Reese Flanigan — Died at David's Island, New York, August 3, 
1864. 

Company D. 

Joseph A. Shaw— Killed at Weldon Railroad, Va., August 19, 
1864. 

Theodore R. Boyles— Died June 19, of wounds received June 18, 
1864, at Petersburg, Va. 

McC. E. Faughender— Killed at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 

William P. Gensler— Killed at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 

Samuel D. Lutz— Killed at Weldon Railroad, Va., August 19, 
1864. 

Henry Nonemaker — Died at Alexandria, Va., July 14, 1864. 

Uriah Stahel— Died September 7th, of wounds received at Wel- 
don Railroad, Va., August 19, 1864. 

David Sherifif— Died at Newville, Pa., December 18, 1864. 

Henry Toomey— Killed at the Weldon Railroad, August 19, 1864. 

Company E. 

Robert E. Johnson— Killed at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 

Edward Bradle} — Died July i6th, of wounds received July 10, 
1864, at Petersburg, Va. 

Charles F. Barnum— Died October 12, 1864. 

James Conway— Killed at Petersburg, June 18, 1864. 

John C. Faunce— Died at W^ashington, D. C, March 31, 1865. 

Joseph Irwin— Died at Philadelphia, Pa., November i, 1864. 

Edward McCleary— Killed at Petersburg. Va., June 22, 1864. 

David McAllister— Died June 20th, of wounds received at Peters- 
burg, Va., June 18, 1864. 

George Wonderly— Died June 19th. of wounds received at 
Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 



70 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Company F. 

Charles DeFrancis— Killed at Petersburg, Va., June i8, 1864. 
William Dugan— Died at Alexandria, Va., August 8, 1864. 
Andrew Goodman — Died at Harrisburg, Pa., March 10, 1864. 
Samuel Harp — Died June 19th, of wounds received at Peters- 
burg, Va., June 18, 1864. 
David James— Killed at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 
Henry Simrell— Died at Washington, D. C, September i, 1864. 

Company G. 

Asa Benjamin — Died at Petersburg, Va., August 6, 1864. 

John Ely— Died at Washington, D. C, August 28, 1864. 

Cornelius Fry — Killed June 18, 1864, at Petersburg, Va. 

Everett H. Felton— Died at Washington, D. C, October 5, 1864. 

William H. Henderson — Died at Philadelphia, Pa., November 21, 
1864. 

John Howard — Died February 15, 1865. 

Charles Jones — Died June 22nd, of wounds received at Peters- 
burg, Va., June 18, 1864. 

William. H. Miller — Died July 11, 1864, at David's Island, New 
York harbor. 

Joseph Merrill — Died at Philadelphia, Pa., August 21, 1864. 

Aaron Sayer — Died at Washington, D. C, July 24, of wounds re- 
ceived at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 

Orin C. Tififany— Killed at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 

Ansen Vergason — Died at Reading, Pa., May i, 1864. 

James Washburn — Died at Fallstown, Pa., November 12, 1864. 

Lester Wright — Died at Brooklyn, Pa., November 24, 1864. 

Company H. 

George Dosch — Killed at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 
George W. Torbert — Died at Philadelphia, Pa., August nth, of 

wounds received at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 
Daniel Courtwright — Died at Alexandria, Va., July 11, 1864. 
Smith Dingo — Died at Petersburg, Va., August 7, 1864. 



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Richard W. Derr — Died at Philadelphia, Pa., October 5, 1864. 
John Mumma — Died at Philadelphia, Pa., October 11, 1864. 
John W. Swanger — Died at City Point, Va., September 15, 1864. 
Henry Shenberger — Died at City Point, Va., September 7, 1864. 
Curtis W. Tiffany — Died at Petersburg, Va., July 29, 1864. 
Henry S. Whitney— Died at Philadelphia, Pa., July 5, 1864. 
Benjamin F. Will — Died at Petersburg, Va., July 28, 1864. 
Orange P. Whitney — Missing in action, August 21, 1864, at the 
Weldon Railroad. 

Company I. 

James W. Byers — Killed at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 

Guy D. Ball— Killed at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 

Albert Balfour — Died at City Point, Va., June 25, 1864. 

Lewis J. Bausman — Died November 2"], 1864. 

Verus N. Bordman^ — Died August 14, 1864. 

James Brown — Died October 5, 1864. 

Philip T. Christian — Drowned May 27, 1864, in the Chesapeake 
Bay. 

Levi Hurst — Died at New York, July 28, 1864, of wounds re- 
ceived in action. 

Nicholas Park — Died August 5, 1864. 

Charles E. Smith — Died July 20, 1864. 

Company K. 

O. V. Ammerman — Killed June 18, 1864. 

Adam Bowers — Died August 8, 1864. 

James Boyde— Died at Washington, D. C, July i8th, of wounds 

received June 18, 1864. 
Prescot K. Barker— Died at Philadelphia, Pa., December 8, 1864. 
Frederick Knicht— Died at City Point, Va., August nth, of 

wounds received at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 
Josiah Lenig — Died at Philadelphia, Pa., September 20, 1864. 
Robert Scott— Died August 8, 1864. 



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Amos Woolheater — Died June 30, of wounds received at Peters- 
burg, Va., June i8, 1864. 
William E. Wallace— Died at City Point, Va., August 10, 1864. 
John V. Wallace — Died January 19, 1864. 
Daniel Yoder — Died July 3, 1864. 




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PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY ^l 

CHAPTER V. 



History oe the 187TH Regiment Pennsylvania 



Infantry. 



Enlisted for Three Years or During the War. Incorporated With 

the First Brigade, First Division, Fifth Corps, 

Army of the Potomac. 

Its Organization. 

THE early part of January, 1864, the officers of the First 
BattaUon, Pennsylvania Six Months' Volunteers, received 
orders to re-enlist the men of the Battalion for three years, 
or during the war. A large number of the men enlisted for three 
years before being mustered out of the Six Months' service; 
others were mustered out on January 9, 1864, but at once re- 
enlisted. Several of the officers of the Battalion opened recruit- 
ing stations at Philadelphia and other points in the State, and by 
the middle of February, Companies A, B, C, D, E and F had en- 
listed their full quota of men. Captain William Young, of Com- 
pany C, having enlisted over six hundred men. They were as- 
sembled at Camp Curtin, at Harrisburg, where they were fully 
armed and equipped and drilled. Several of the Companies 
were then sent to the various county seats of the State, namely, 
Lancaster, Lycoming, Blair, Franklin, Cumberland and Schuyl- 
kill, to assist the Provost Marshals in the performance of their 
duties. On the 24th of March the following order was issued 
from the Headquarters of the Department of the Susquehanna : 

Headquarters, Department of Sus- 
General Orders. quehanna, Chambersburg, Pa., 

No. 20. March 24, 1864. 

Authority having been granted by the War Department to 
the Commanding General of the Department of the Susquehanna, 
the First Battalion, Three Years' Pennsylvania Volunteers 
(formerlv Six Months' Volunteers), consisting of six Com- 
panies mustered into the United States service for three years, or 



78 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

during the war, is authorized to recruit to ten Companies of the 
maximum strength. 

This BattaHon is on provost duty in this department, and it 
offers a good opportunity to those persons who have been in the 
service, and have been honorably discharged, to re-enter, and to 
those of good character who have not been in the service, to enter 
the same. Only those known to the recruiting officers, and per- 
sons authorized to recruit, as being reliable and trustworthy, will 
be received, as the nature of the duty this Battalion is called 
upon to perform is such that it requires soldiers in whom the 
commanding officers can place confidence. 

Persons taking advantage of the benefits arising from en- 
listment in this Battalion will receive the bounties paid by the 
Government as authorized in existing orders. 

The officers must be men who have had some experience 
in the military service, intelligent and of good character ; and only 
those bringing the requisite number of men and possessing the 
above qualifications will be recommended to the Governor of the 
State for commissions. 

Recruits and persons having squads of recruits will report 
to Captain George W. Merrick, First Battalion, Three Years' 
Pennsylvania Volunteers, and recruiting officer for the same at 
Harrisburg, Pa. 

Application to enter this Battalion must be made at once, that 
the Companies may be filled and organized before the 15th of 
April next, after which date the additional Government bounties, 
as now paid, will be discontinued, and only the one hundred dol- 
lars bounty will be paid, as provided by the Act approved July. 
22, 1861. 

By command of Major General Couch. 

Official : , John S. Schultze, 

Aide-de-Camp. Assistant Adjutant General. 

Under this order the Regiment was organized at Camp 
Curtin, Harrisburg, Pa., in March, and by the seventh day of May 
Companies G, H, I and K had recruited their full number of 
men and were armed, equipped and drilled for active service. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 79 



CHAPTER VI. 



MAY 17th, 1864, in compliance with an order from the War 
Department, the various detachments assembled at Har- 
risburg, and on the 19th, under command of Lieutenant 
Colonel Joseph F. Ramsey, the Regiment marched from Camp 
Curtin, over the Susquehanna, on the old camel back bridge to 
Bridgeport, from whence it passed by rail over the N. C. R. R. to 
Baltimore, where it was sheltered from the storm during the night 
in the rooms of the Union Relief Association. On the 20th it 
proceeded to Washington, and tarried for the night in the Sol- 
diers' Retreat of the Capital City. The members of Company D 
on this day presented Captain J. A. Ege with a very beautiful 
sword and belt. 

At 6 a. m. on the 21st, the march was resumed along Penn- 
sylvania Avenue, to, and over the Potomac on the Long Bridge 
into the "Old Dominion." A short march and arms were stacked 
at Fort Albany, near Arlington, the home of General Lee. As 
the Regiment moved over the avenue the following dialogue took 
place: "Where from?" said a venerable patriot. "Pennsyl- 
vania." "How long?" "Ah! Ah!" A few more companies 
having passed by, again came the query: "How long? "Three 
years," rang out in a chorus. "God bless you ; God bless Penn- 
sylvania." So the length of the service had all to do with the 
old patriarch's blessing. 

The first camp in Virginia of the 187th Regiment, was fami- 
liar ground to many of the boys, having trodden the same soil 
on that spot prior to Antietam. The location of the camp was 
a beautiful one, overlooking the City of Washington and the 
sluggish waters of the Potomac River, surrounded on all sides 
by Union forts and soldiers. Two brigades of negro soldiers 
were encamped about 500 yards from our camp. General Lee's 
old mansion was in view. This camp was on Arlington Heights, 
near Fort Albany. 



8o HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

May 22nd, remained at this camp all day, had Battalion drill 
in the afternoon ; weather exceedingly warm. 

May 23rd, still in the same camp, had Company drill in the 
morning and Battalion drill in the afternoon. 

May 24th, still in the same camp, received orders to be ready 
to move in the evening. Drew shoes and some clothing. 

May 25th, weather very disagreeable; raining very fast all 
day ; cleared up in the evening ; broke camp and marched to 
Alexandria, Va. ; arrived there about 7 o'clock p. m. Regiment 
embarked on Government transports D. H. Mount and the 
Thorn ; lay in the harbor all that night. 

May 26th, set sail from Alexandria at daybreak for Port 
Royal, Va. Scenery grand ; passed Fort Washington and Mt. 
Vernon early in the evening ; cast anchor at Point Lookout, on 
Chesapeake Bay, about sunset ; stayed about two hours and then 
set sail once more ; sailed nearly all night. 

May 27th, on waking this morning we found ourselves just 
entering the mouth of the Rappahannock River. Sailed up to 
Urbanna and our escort (a gunboat) went back. Waited until 3 
o'clock p. m. ; set sail with an escort of two gunboats, it being 
unsafe for us to venture alone as the country was infested with 
guerillas. We proceeded up the river till dark, when we run 
aground and stuck fast in the mud, and were unable to get off 
that night. Philip F. Christian, of Company I, was drowned. 





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PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INEANTRY 8l 



CHAPTER VIL 



THE morning of the 28th, found the Regiment on the beauti- 
ful and historic Rappahannock. Here it was greeted by 
every demonstration of joy and welcome by the loyal 
blacks upon the grand old plantations that lined its banks. Port 
Royal was reached on the 29th, and the Regiment disembarked 
and went into bivouac near the town. The time consumed at 
Port Royal was employed in getting together the necessary sup- 
plies, supply trains, etc., in order to march towards Cold Harbor. 

On the 31st, at 9. a. m., the march was resumed, but before 
leaving Port Royal we destroyed by fire all surplus clothing, bag- 
gage, etc., and after a hard march over a rough country, Bowling 
Green was reached at 9 a. m., June ist. The atmosphere was 
very hot, the roads very sandy and dusty. After the first day's 
march, the sun's effect began to tell on the men and they began 
to unload, throwing away such articles of clothing as they thought 
they would not need, soon the road was littered with all kinds 
of clothing, such as overcoats, blankets, caps, coats, blouses, 
pants and under clothing. Aloseby's and White's band of 
Guerrillas were constantly on the flank of the regiment, two Rebel 
scouts being captured on the way. 

At II a. m., the march was resumed and after a very 
tedious tramp the Mattapony River was reached. The bridge 
being burned another was constructed, and the 187th passed to 
the south side. The ground being unfavorable, the Regiment 
recrossed the river under command of Major George W. Mer- 
rick and went into camp in a strong position. 

The First Alarm. 

About midnight a solitary picket shot was heard, and then 
another and another, until the picket was almost generally 
engaged in firing at some supposed enemy. The regiment was 



82 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

soon aroused from its slumber and formed in line of battle ready 
for the foe. No Rebels appearing and quiet being restored on the 
picket line it soon sank into much needed sleep. 

Continuing the march on the 2nd, at 12 m. it halted beside 
a beautiful stream, and dinner over, the boys obeyed the injunc- 
tion, namely: "Cleanliness is next to Godliness," by bathing in 
its pure and refreshing waters to their heart's content. 

Under Skirmish Fire. 

During the afternoon the 187th moved forward, with Com- 
pany B, Captain D. Z. Seip, thrown out as skirmishers. Lieutenant 
S. I. Adams in advance, pushed up the stream for about a mile, 
when a band of Rebels were espied in the distance. Brisk firing 
began between the two forces, resulting in the retiring of the 
enemy. 

A number of negroes were captured and much valuable 
information was obtained from them. At 3 p. m., the Regiment 
reached the skirmish line, and then with Companies A and B as 
skirmishers, the march was continued. 

The skirmishers experienced many hardships in passing 
through thickets, over streams, etc. Finally, in a drenching rain 
it went into camp on the slope of a large hill for the night, lulled 
to sleep by the artillery salvoes from the field of Cold Harbor. 

During the night the 187th was joined by some 8,000 troops, 
consisting of the Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, the Tenth 
New York Heavy Artillery, a Regiment of stragglers, deserters, 
etc., under command of Colonel Gregory ; Captain John B. 
Eaton's Battery of Light Artillery, the Twenty-first Pennsylvania 
Cavalry, dismounted, and a pontoon train in charge of Captain 
Henderson, all under command of Colonel Gibson, of the Second 
Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery. 

On the 3rd, the column of infantry, cavalry and artillery 
moved on and reached Beulah Church, a large brick edifice 
erected in 1846, and situated in a grand old forest of oaks, etc. 

After dinner and a short halt in this beautiful place, the 
march was resumed, passing Elliottsville during the afternoon, 



rUNNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 83 

moving in the direction of the Pawnuinky River, reaching there 
and bivouacing at nightfall. 

Rebel Demonstration. 

The enemy having made some demonstrations on the rear 
and flank of the Regiment, a part of Company B, under Captam 
Seip, was thrown out as pickets along the road just traversed, to 
guard against any sudden attack in that direction. 

At 5 a. m., on the 4th, the pickets were recalled and the 
column crossed the river on a pontoon bridge about 12 m. and 
went into camp. 

With the Army oe the Potomac. 
After marching seventy miles in less than five days and cross- 
ing three rivers and building one bridge, the 187th, in the midst 
of a heavy storm, stacked arms within the battle beaten ranks of 
Meade's Army at Cold Harbor, on the evening of the 4th, while 
the thundering of the guns all night long welcomed it into the 
stern realities of war. 



84 



HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 







CHICKAHOMINY SWAMP. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTUV 8$ 



CHAPTEP. VIII. 



THROUGH rain and mud all day Sunday, the sdi, it marched 
and countermarched about thirty miles along the lines of 
the army, when at 5 p. m. it reached a point on the Mechan- 
icsville road, near Shady Grove Church, on the Chickahominy 
River, and in support of the Fifth Corps. 

Under Fire at Cold Harbor. 
Heavy picket firing ran along the lines of the opposing forces 
until 10 p. m., when the Rebels made a fierce attack on Warren's 
men, the Regiment responded to the command, "Fall m" 
promptly, and soon stood to arms in support of the Fifth Corps, 
and after a half hour's desperate fighting the Union line stood 
intact, and the Rebels were repulsed at all points. 

About II p. m., the enemy made another determined fight to 
break the Fifth Corps line, but only to meet with the same dis- 
astrous defeat. Rebel bullets fell plentifully in the ranks of the 
187th, but fortunately it suffered no loss. On the cessation of the 
fighting the Regiment, with the Fifth Corps, moved to the left 
center, and early on the 6th was in reserve. 

This day the 187th was incorporated with the First Brigade. 
First Division of the Fifth Corps. The other Regiments of the 
Brigade were as follows: 143rd, 149th and the 150th Pennsyl- 
vania Volunteers; the 187th taking the place of the Fourth Dela- 
ware, the Brigade was thenceforth known as the "Keystone, ' com- 
manded by Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain, he succeedmg Gen- 
eral Bragg. General Charles C. Grifi^n commanding the Division, 
and General G. K. Warren the Corps. 

Early on the 7th, the Corps moved to the extreme left of 

the Army, on the north bank of the Chickahominy and began 

entrenching its position, and here, for the next six days, it Was 

exposed to a murderous fire from the Rebel batteries and pickets. 

On the 7th the Brigade was located about a mile from the 



86 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT. 

Chickahominy, and about five miles from Bottom Bridge, and for 
several days the Regiment did picket duty along the stream. 

June 8th, remained behind our works ; all quiet excepting 
some picket firing and cannonading in our front. 

June 9th, still in the same position ; had Company drill in the 
morning, dress parade in the evening. 

June loth, yet in the old position, nothing of importance 
transpiring ; Company drill in the morning, Battalion drill in the 
afternoon. 

June nth, still in same camp, every thing quiet; Twenty-first 
Pennsylvania Cavalry is lying on our left. 

June I2th, Sunday, found us still in our old camp; received 
the first mail to-day since we left Harrisburg, some of the boys 
received five and six letters ; were ordered to pack up and be 
ready to march at any moment. Took up the march at dark and 
after four hours' march halted on the north bank of the Chicka- 
hominy River, and slept there until morning. 

June 12, 1864, ON THE Picket Line. 

On the morning of June 12th Lieutenant John E. Reilly, of 
Company F, with a detachment of men from the Regiment, was 
detailed for picket. The Lieutenant was placed in charge of the 
Division pickets along the Chickahominy. This river was com- 
posed of a number of narrow streams running through and 
between numerous small islands at low water, and at high water, 
the river covered several hundred yards of meadows of the low 
lands along which we picketed and, it being low water at this time, 
our pickets were stretched along these narrow islands with instruc- 
tions given him by the officer in charge of the Reserve pickets of 
the Division, that as the Army was to move away, sometime dur- 
ing the night, he would notify him about midnight to draw the 
pickets in quietly and rejoin the Army as soon thereafter as 
possible. The pickets could hear our troops moving all that night 
until midnight, but no one 'notified them to leave, and knowing 
that the Army had gone and left them, between two and three 
o'clock on the morning of the 13th, Lieutenant Reilly drew his 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 87 

men in from the picket line. In the darkness they lost the narrow 
path along the islands by which he had placed each post durmg 
the morning before, and the consequence was they pressed back 
too far and got into a swamp. Between this swamp and the 
main land our picket line ran. While they were wallowmg 
around in the mire, the enemy jumped across the narrow stream 
which had divided them, and in their effort to cut our men off, 
thev too, were swamped as our pickets were. After plowmg 
through the mire knee deep until day began to dawn, our pickets 
found themselves on the edge of a corn field, over which they 
double quicked until they reached the main road over which part 
of our Army had proceeded the night before, where they were 
joined by a First Lieutenant and thirty-nine men of other Brigade 
pickets of our Division. But, the road being sandy and very 
much torn up by the wheels of the artillery and wagons, we could 
not see which way the foot prints in the sand pointed, conse- 
quently could not tell which direction they marched. 

The other officer and Lieutenant Reilly, who were of equal 
rank, were divided in opinion regarding the way they should go, 
in order to follow the Army ; and were in a quandary, no reserve 
pickets having been left to guide them. They had no time to 
ponder over the matter as the enemy were now in sight with a 
squadron of cavalry trying to cut them off. Lieutenant Reilly, 
then gave as his opinion that he had no doubt that General Grant, 
was making for the James River as McClellan did in 1862, to 
make that his base of operation with the advantages of that 
navigable river, and as Lieutenant Reilly had been over the same 
ground with McClellan, 1862, he was sure the James River was 
to the right of where we were at that time. When the men knew 
that he had been over the ground before they all said that they 
should go to the right. The other officer then said that if Reilly 
was willing to assume the responsibility, he should take command, 
which he did, and having no time to spare, as the cavalry 
squadron of the enemy were crossing the cornfield close by, Reilly 
immediatelv detailed ten men. who, with himself, took their posi- 
tions on the bank, Iving down in the high grass to await their 
coming, at the same time ordering the other Lieutenant to proceed 



HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 




A NICE DAY ON PICKET. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 89 

down the road on double quick time in the direction he supposed 
that the Armv of the Potomac had taken the night before. They 
did not have'long to wait for as soon as the enemy came withm 
range Lieutenant Reilly gave the order to fire, causmg them to 
wheel about and make for the cover of the woods along the Chick- 
ahominv, whence they came. They then slid down the bank to the 
road again and proceeded double quick through the cut, to over- 
take those who had preceded them. There was an open stretch 
of about half a mile before overtaking the mam portion of the 
detail The enemv keeping up a running fire on them until they 
reached the shelter of the woods beyond, where they met the 
other pickets. Thev saw no more of the enemy, only at a dis- 
tance the rest of the dav, and not until near midnight of the 13th 
did thev reach the rearguard of the Army, then they had difficulty 
in finding the Division pickets. Then they met the Captain who 
had command of the Division pickets, and who should have gone 
to them after the Army had left on the night of the 12th, and 
directed the commander of the Brigade pickets when to draw m 
his men from the picket line and to have left a guide if he was 
afraid to remain himself and show them the way that the Army 
had gone. He met Lieutenant Reilly with the demand to know 
where he had been. Reilly's answer was that he had been domg 
his dutv, and that was more than he, the Captain could say. This 
same Captain was afterwards tried and dismissed from the ser- 
vice for cowardice. 

Change of Base. 

About 4 a. m. on the 13th, the Fifth Corps left its works and 
crossed the Chickahominy on a pontoon bridge near Longs 
Bridge and took the road for Wilcox Wharf, on the James River. 
At 12 m White Oak swamp was reached, a short halt and the 
march was resumed, and all through the night the tramp, tramp 
of Warren's men was heard. 

At I a. m., on the 14th, a halt was called ; at 4 a. m. the Corps 
was on the move again, until fifty miles were traversed and W hite 
Oak Swamp and the Peninsula of \^irginia were crossed and the 



90 HISTORY OF iS/TH REGIMENT 

flanking- movement of Grant's Army was successfully covered 
by the Fifth Corps. The 187th participated in all these movements, 
and at 10.30 a. m., with Corps, occupied the entrenchments at 
Charles City Court House, a picturesque Virginia town. 

The Fifth Corps remained here until daybreak on the i6th, 
when it moved to the river and the Regiment was ferried over the 
historic James River, on the tug Eliza Hancock, and while the 
Corps was crossing, the 187th enjoyed a most needed bath in the 
pure waters of the beautiful stream. After drawing two days' 
rations, the Corps moved towards Petersburg, on the Appomattox 
River in Dinwiddie, Prince George and Chesterfield Counties. 

The road was rough and great clouds of dust covered the 
moving column, the sun in torrid rays beat upon Warren's men 
as, hour after hour, they pressed forward until sunset, when a 
halt was sounded and the jaded men of the Fifth Corps threw 
themselves upon the ground in the hope of a night's rest, but 
soon the bugle sounded the onward move. 

Onward moved the column, the sun had gone down, but the 
burning sand still reflected its heat into the faces of the soldiery. 
Far into the night they dragged their wearied limbs before the 
halt was sounded. At length the Corps filed into a large field. 
Arms stacked and supper over, Warren's men halted for a little 
while and then resumed the terrible march, and after marching 
thirty-six miles in ten hours, the 187th, with the Fifth Corps, 
stacked arms and exhausted fell to sleep on the spot, aptly 
described in the lines of "Shelby," 

"Death is here and death is there, 
And death is everywhere." 

No bed so soft as that on which the Regiment reposed on the 
night of June i6th, slumbering on unmindful of the cannons' roar 
and the rattling of musketry along the lines of Petersburg. 

Here was the first experience of a water famine. The 
fatiguing march was accompanied by the accustomed growling 
and word went along the line that the Division would halt as 
soon as water was reached. 

At last it was found, fit probably, for thirsty soldiers, but cer- 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 9I 

tainly for none else. A green slime floated on the surface, a 
skillful and sudden movement with the bottom of the tin cup, 
opened the scum, and then a hurried dip before it closed again, 
supplied a cupful. So urgent was the thirst that the foul, slimy 
liquid was swallowed with avidity, regardless of taste or conse- 
quence. With the daylight an attempt to wash in this swampy 
bayou was speedily abandoned. It revealed hosts of forbidding 
animalculae, tadpoles, "zig-zaggers," and every squirming insect 
that found life and comfort in such repulsive quarters. The flavor 
of the morning cofifee disappeared in galling bitterness. Rather 
than fill canteens, the men moved on in hopes of finding something 
better. They soon discovered their mistake, instead of finding 
better there was none at all. In the section the Army was ap- 
proaching, and that was long to be its home, there was no water 
on the surface during the hot season just at hand. At every 
change of position it was first to dig for cover then dig for water. 




SIEGE OF PETERSBURG. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 93 



CHAPTER IX. 



In Front oe Petersburg. 

THE breaking of the day of the 17th revealed the Fifth Corps, 
in support of the Ninth Corps, on the battlefield of Peters- 
burg. Burnside had already moved to the attack on the 
Rebel line, capturing guns and prisoners. 

The battle continued with severity until the afternoon, when 
the Ninth, supported by the Fifth Corps, drove the rebels into the 
inner hnes near the city. 

From 7 to 9 p. m. there was a lull in the battle. Suddenly the 
enemy made a furious attack upon the Ninth Corps, and suc- 
ceeded in forcing it back from its advanced position. The 
prompt support of Warren's men prevented the further advance. 
In all of these encounters with the enemy the 187th, took a con- 
spicuous part. 

The First Baptism of Blood. 
Friday, June i8th, the sky was overcast with clouds and a 
dense vapor enveloped the field of blood and carnage, the day of 
its bloody baptism had dawned for the 187th. 

At 4 a. m. the Regiment stood to arms with the Fifth Corps, 
and soon thereafter, advanced. 

About 8 a. m. the Rebel batteries opened fire on the Union 
lines. During this heavy cannonade the Fifth Corps moved into 
line of battle. The line of the 187th, with the First Brigade, First 
Division, was formed in a large oats field, under cover of a deep 
pine forest, running from West to East, and facing the South, 
just to the East and left of the Regiment, in an open field, a 
strong Union battery replied with terrible effect to the Rebel fire. 
The shot and shell crashed and tore through the woods from 
the enemv's works, plowing up the ground along the i87th's posi- 
tion and wounding Theodore R. Boyles, of Company D. A little 
later on in the day A. A. Wolf, of the Company, was wounded. 
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94 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

On this part of the field the dead of both sides were still 
nnburied. In a breastwork which had been occupied by the Con- 
federates, their dead lay four deep on each other. The attack at 
this point had evidently been made by the First Michigan sharp- 
shooters, of Wilcox Division of the Ninth Corps, their dead lay 
so close that their muskets crossed each other. 

There are thoughtful men who study batdes, who reject the 
phrase "piles of dead" as an extravagance. The Bloody Lane at 
Antietam, the Bloody Angle, at Spottsylvania, and here at Peters- 
burg, is testimony sufficient to justify its use. The dead were 
literally piled one upon the other. There were few survivors on 
either side. 

About 10.30 a. m. the Regiment, with its Bridgade, moved 
by the left and East, and thence South across the Petersburg and 
Norfolk railroad, on a bridge muffled with grass. Turning West 
it moved steadily, but surely, upon the right flank of the rebel 
forces under a hot and galling fire of shot and shell from the 
rebel guns. The rebels held the railroad, and a large hill just 
south of it. Now, as Warren's men were firmly advancing on the 
flank, Hancock pressed the rebel front, and about 12 m. a simul- 
taneous attack was made through a storm of fire, and death, and 
blood, and carnage, and the Rebel line, torn and bleeding, was 
forced into the inner lines near the city. 

The enemy now held a strong natural position and made more 
so by spade and pick south of the railroad, while the Union line 
ran along the railroad, that part of it where the 187th stood being 
upon a lesser hill than that occupied by the enemy. A meadow 
lay between with a stream of water coursing its way at the base of 
the rebel hill, designated as Reservoir Hill by vVarren's men. 
The stream was lined with scrub oaks, etc. The distance between 
the two points was perhaps half a mile. The opposing forces lay 
watching each other under a heavy artillery and musketry fire 
for a little while, when orders were received to charge the rebel 
position. Gradually the Union guns ceased their fire. Mean- 
while Warren's men tightened their belts, fixed their bayonets 
and set their faces for the next red storm of war and the 
iron and leaden hail of battle. About 3 p. m. the order 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 95 

to charge was received. The 187th moved to the front line of the 
First Brigade and rushed down the hill on the run, and with a 
cheer reached the meadow below, imder a murderous fire of 
round shot, shell, grape and canister, that swept the ground 
with its fury. The wounded and dying increasing, and the dead 
becoming more numerous at every step ; but on moves the Regi- 
ment, across the meadow, over the stream and up the hill, and 
under the biting and withering deadly fire that rained down upon 
it from the rebel stronghold above. On up to the very guns of 
the enemy — but only to be hurled, broken and bleeding, back to 
the base of the hill. The Regiment still clung to the meadow 
and tenaciously held its ground, while the air was filled with 
strange sounds and the earth shook with the heavy concussions of 
the artillery and exposed to a fire in front and flank so deadly that 
no flesh could endure it. It was forced to retire, w^hich it 
did under cover of the Union guns, under as destructive and 
deadly a fire as ever swept a field of battle. At 4 p. m. it held 
its original line just South of the railroad. About 5 p. m. the 
Rebels made a counter attack, but met with a bloody repulse. 
At 7 p. m. the Regiment moved down into the ravine from 
which it had been driven, for the purpose of storming the 
works above them. The boys of the 187th realized the full 
importance and danger of the movement about to be executed 
by them ; they knew that many of them would be called upon 
to yield up life in the advance upon the rebel works. Strips 
of paper bearing their names were fastened to each coat lapel, 
that the survivors might be able to identify their lifeless bodies 
and give them proper care after the failure that they knew this 
forlorn hope would be. For nine long hours Warren's men 
anxiously awaited the order to go in, but it came not, and at dawn 
on the 19th, the 187th, with its Division, was withdrawn and fell 
to entrenching its position on the P. & N. R. R. In the battle of 
the 1 8th, the 187th, by the Government records, lost in killed and 
wounded, etc., 189. By Lieutenant Colonel Ramsey's report 200, 
and more than all the rest of the First Brigade lost, and more 
than the loss of any other Regiment in the Fifth Corps. 

Its intrepid bearing under fire for the first time in a general 



96 HISTORY OF 187TII REGIMENT 

engagement won the "special commendation" of its Brigade com- 
mander, General Joshua L. Chamberlain, who was severely 
wounded as he led his men into the thickest of the fight. Major 
George W. Merrick, Lieutenant Jonathan Jessup, of Company 
B ; Comrade Rodenhoflfer, of Company F ; Comrade Nash, of 
Company C, each lost a leg, and Comrade Waldron, of Company 
C, lost an arm in the charge. This was the first immolation of the 
Regiment upon the altar of liberty, and it attests its patriotism 
and loyalty to the flag and the Constitution. 

June 18, 1864, at Petersburg, Va., (Extract from the Diary 
of Lieutenant John E. Reillv, Company F, 187th Regiment P. 
V. L) 

After a double quick movement to the left before reaching 
the woods where we formed line of battle, we were obliged to 
cross a wide opening, through which the enemy had clean sweep 
upon us with their artillery from the fort on the hill which we 
afterwards charged. After forming a line in the woods, which 
was very dense, and when we reached the outer edge of the same, 
fronting the enemy's works, the right and left of the Regiment 
had almost doubled up on the centre, owing to a mistake of the 
commanding officer in directing alignment while advancing 
throught the woods. Had the enemy opened fire on us then, as 
they did shortly after, the Regiment would have lost very heavily. 
Major Merrick, seeing the predicament we were in, then ordered 
the Regiment to move by right and left flank, thus extricating us 
from the dangerous position that we were in. This was done none 
too soon, for the enemy's batteries soon opened a terrific fire upon 
us, as we advanced to the knoll behind which we lay until ordered 
at 3 o'clock that afternoon to charge the enemy's fort on the hill 
opposite. After crossing the knoll the enemy's guns had clean 
sweep upon us as we charged down the stubbled hill into the 
ravine, over the ditch and up the hill to their fort, compelling 
them to leave their guns. There was nothing between a portion 
of our Regiment and these guns but the abatis and ditch outside 
of the fort, and had we been properly supported, the 187th Regi- 
ment would have had the credit of occupying "Rive's Salient" on 
the 18th of June, and there would not have been so many lives 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 97 

S: a rkiUing and wounding a number of our men. W 

L there seeing that we could not remanr long m this 
aZnced position tmless this battery was silenced. Captam Se.p 
uXant^Gore and myself concluded that t ^y^^J^ 
RrldMde Headquarters (which was then back of the knou) 
fhatihe en^; had a battery raking onr Position -"^ "-;-"; 
fhPv would have one of our batteries open on them and tnai 

my men lay close to the foot of the hill so as to escape as much 
Ts possMe the infantrv fire of the enemy, as well as the fire from 
hrianeries. As soon as I started to cross the ravme I became 
a r'e for the infantry ; so I got back over the hdl ,n plunge^ 
bv mining ten or twelve feet and throwing myself forward 
among stumps of trees with which the W" --"--''■"^^^^ 
hTvinl cut down all the wooded part of the h.ll before- g 
there so as to give open range for the.r gt.n. When ^ as 
makin- mv last plunge for the stone fence on the crest behind 
:« h'l found a part'of the Regiment, the volley fired at me y 
the enemy killed Sergeant Janus Moore, of Company C wo had 
iust raised himself from his lying position to fire, when he was 
'sl^tck bv orie of the enemy's bullets. When I go. behind the knoll 



9o HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

I found that General Chamberlain had been wounded and taken 
to the rear, and that Colonel Irwin was temporarily in command 
of the Brigade. I reported to him the dangerous position we 
were in and that we could not get out of it alive unless a battery 
was placed in position to cover us. He at first did not believe it 
possible for the enemy to place a battery in position that could 
rake down through the ravine. I said, "Colonel, if you were 
down there where our men are and where I have just come from, 
you would know it," at the time telling of my experience in com- 
ing back in order to try to save the lives of the hundred or more 
of brave men who were still in the ravine. While I was talking to 
him a grape shot came bounding over the hill from the direction 
in which the battery lay, which caused him and the others to crawl 
down further behind the knoll, I said to him, "Do you believe it 
now. Colonel?" He then sent one of his Aids over to General 
Griffin for a battery, I then gathered five or six men from the 
different Companies of the Regiment, and started to go back to 
the ravine. Lieutenant Orville D. Harder, of Company C (who 
was an Aide-de-Camp on the Brigade stafif), said, "Johnnie, don't 
you attempt to go back over that hill." I said, "Orville, my Com- 
pany is down in that ravine, and I told them when leaving them 
that if I lived I would be back, so I must get there, somehow." He 
said, "Good-bye, old boy, I hope that you will live to get there." 
It was dusk, and I thought by hugging close to a clump of sap- 
lings to the right of the hill, we would not draw the enemy's 
fire, or at least escape the fire from their artillery, but just as we 
got over the knoll and were descending the brow, I was hit in 
the head and temporarily knocked out; but while the men were 
carrying me to the rear, I recovered consciousness and under 
cover of darkness returned to the ravine. Fortunately the bullet 
that struck me had hit a sapling and glanced along the side of my 
head, causing a contused wound and rupturing the tympanum of 
my right ear, the blood having gushed from my ear, down 
around my neck. When I reached my Company some of the 
boys thought that I had been trying to cut my throat. Before 
daybreak next day we were piloted out one and two at a time by 
some men from the Ninth Corps. The next day Dr. Webb 



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99 



dressed my wound and thinking it of a serious nature ordered me 
fob taken to the hospital at City Point, but I refused o go si 
was the only officer with my Company. General Griffin hearing 
Tf to sent for me and made me recorder of a Board of Inquiry 
to xam ne into charges which had been accumulating at Division 
HeX r ers since fhe beginning of the Wilderness Campaigm 
After getting through with the work and making a report of the 
fame Snerd Griffin issued an order making me Judge Advocate 
of*; Mvision, and requested that I remain at Headquarters unti 
my wound was entirely well. After getting *rot,gh -* ^e 
first batch of cases which had been sent to me. and wh le waiting 
f other charges and specifications to be P-P-^^' \f-^^/° 
be relieved from Headquarter's duty for a ^^^^"^^1^^^^ 
could be with my Company out at the b«as' ^^f ,^ Jf^ ^ ^^J^ 
on the 26th of July. Adjutant Henry said to me that tue Kegi 
mei t was the^ sLrt of officers for duty, and he did "Ot know who 
to detail for picket. I volunteered to go on duty that night the 
ft of ur pLets was on the right side of the Jerusalem Plank 
road. About midnight the Sergeant came '"."^ ^j^ , f ^* 
one of the Rebel pickets was acting very suspiciously on the other 
side of the Plank road. I immediately went down to that end of 
he line and sure enough, there was a tall Johnnie eaning on a 
nc post (there being no rails), and as it was an elegant moon- 
Sit n'°ht we could see very plainly, I told the Sergeant o detail 
two or three of the pickets and lie in the bushes close to the road, 
and I w I d go back and cross over inside of our breast works 
I oth" side'of the road, and crawl up the gully on that side unt, 
I got under him, while they covered him w^h *e.r muskets but 
not to fire until I was compelled to do so with my "^oWer^ U n 
he saw mv head above the bank he made a move as if ^ P-k "P '- 
gun, but seeing that I had him covered with my -volver he shd 
down the bank into the gully as I ordered him, I hen n a cW 
bin, inside of our works ahead of -• ~-™g "" ;t \" d 
revolver all the time. I got him something to ^at, for he ad 
that he had nothing to eat for three days except a few P^e e 
of hard tack. This was about midnight on the 26th. Aext 
day on Z 27th, I took my prisoner to the Division Head- 



lOO HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

quarters, where I remained on duty as Division Judge Advocate 
until the night before we started for the Weldon R. R., when, at 
my request, supported by that of Colonel Tilden, who then com- 
manded the Bridgade, I was relieved from Headquarter's duty to 
take command of my Company in that movement. 

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Chamberlain, Historian of the 
150th P. V. of our Brigade, writes as follows of this battle: 

"In the general advance of the Second, Ninth and Fifth 
Corps, on the morning of June i8th, the Fifth was on the left and 
had the greatest distance to travel, probably not less than a mile 
and a half. The ground was very irregular, being broken by 
ravines and by the Norfolk Railroad cut, which made the move- 
ment very laborious, and necessitated some readjustment of the 
lines before the final dash upon the enemy's works. Griffin's Divi- 
sion of which the 150th was a part, formed for the assault under 
cover of a slight elevation about three hundred yards from the 
Rebel forts, and elaborate instructions were given to Brigade and 
Regimental commanders, as to the manner of their advance and 
the objective point of each. To the 150th, naturally fell the duty of 
leading the way as skirmishers for the Brigade, and I^Iajor Jones 
was ordered at a given signal — the firing of a certain battery — to 
move rapidly across the first ravine in front to the brow of a 
rising ground beyond, from which — if the supporting lines fol- 
lowed closely and in good order, he was to advance precipitately 
across a second ravine and press on until he struck the rebel 
works. 

These w^ere to be carried, if possible ; or, if that could not be 
accomplished, the nearest elevation was to be held and fortified. 
At the signal which was given about four p. m.. Major Jones' 
command sprang nimbly through the hollow to the summit of 
the little hill, and seeing the long line of the 187th Pennsylvania 
following in admirable array, with the other supports close upon 
their heels, dashed swiftly into the second ravine and up its farther 
slope to the very base of the formidable earthworks. 

During this time the enemy was not idle. The forts and 
connecting entrenchments were strongly manned, and from every 



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point dominating tl,e scene of the assault came sl^ot and she! and 
rattling grape and canister, coupled w.th a murderous fire of 
TLeU against whiclr no troops could make an effectwe stand. 
Wliile the 150th escaped with comparatively httle loss m pass- 
ing the last ravine, owing to its formation as skirmishers, no 
sooner had the 187th and the succeeding hne of smaller Reg - 
ments gained the top of the rising ground, already ment.oned, 
Than th!y began to melt away under the merciless storm of .ron 
nd lead Under the superb leadership of Colonel Josht.a U 
Chamberlain, who won the confidence and afteCon of 
Brigade, thev pressed on almost to the enemy s works ; but at th, 
critical point the Colonel was dangerously wounded, and, exposed 
to an enfilading as well as direct fire, which strewed the ground 
with scores of dead or disabled officers and men at every moment 
they were forced to retire to the protection of the httle ndge wh.eh 
they had just surmounted. It was a gallant effort, and although 
unavailing, commanded the admiration of all who w.tttessed tt. 
For his part in the action. Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlam, was 
promoted on the field, by General Grant, to a Bngad.er General- 
ship and later won the rank of Major General chiefly though the 
work of this sanguinary day." (From History of the 150th P. 
v., pasre 213-214.) ^ . ^ 

General Humphreys, in his book "The Virginia Campaign of 
•64 and '65," says, "General Warren's assault was well made, some 
of Griffin's men being killed within twenty feet of the enemy s 
works, but it was no more successful than the others. His losses 
were very severe. Among the desperately wounded was Colonel 
Joshua L. Camberlain, of the 20th Maine, who led his Brigade 
under a destructive fire." 

General Chamberlain, in an interview with a newspaper re- 
porter, the details of which were published in the New York 
World of January 15. i893> after mentioning the consolidation 
of the First and Fifth Army Corps, in the Spring of 1864, said 
of his own command. "It consisted of Doubleday's Division of 
Veterans (Roy Stone's and Rowley's old Brigades), to which 
was added a fine new Regiment, the 187th Pennsylyama. and this 



102 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

made up my Brigade. I was called to command it while I held 
the rank of Colonel in another Brigade. It was with this mag- 
nificent command that I made the now famous charge at Peters- 
burg, June 18, 1864." 



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CHAPTER X. 



The Battles of the Trenches. 

ON the 2ist the Regiment was in reserve with the Fifth 
Corps on the left center of the army. At dusk it moved 
to the front, taking part with the Corps, in continuing the 
line to the left on the Jerusalem plank road. This was now the 
extreme left of Meade's advanced line and from this flank War- 
ren was compelled to stretch his Corps out into a thin battle Ime 
and at best the line was only patched, and still left considerable of 
a gap between Hancock's left and Warren's right. The move- 
ment was executed under a murderous fire and was hotly con- 
tested by the Rebels. , u- j 

Morning revealed the 187th with Warren's men behind a 
strong line of entrenchments. It was a perilous undertaking and 
was carried forward all through the night under a spiteful and 
biting fire; and, had the enemy known of the weakness of the 
Fifth Corps' line, or how easily its left, and at the same time the 
extreme left of the army, might have been turned, or how quickly 
the line between Hancock and Warren at the gap adverted to, 
could have been penetrated, the consequences of such knowledge 
would have caused serious if not disastrous result for Meade's 
army. The Fifth Corps, in this movement, not only covered it- 
self with honor, but did a heroic and far-reaching service for the 
country it served. 

June 22nd. Still at work on the fortifications. The enemy 
are in heavv force in our front. They have strong works about 
500 vards in our front. About three p. m. the Rebels attacked 
Hancock. The fire reached as far on Warren's line as the position 
of the 187th Regiment, which was promptly repulsed. Leonard 
W. Boatman, of Company A, and Edward McCreary. of Com- 
pany E, were killed to-day. The remainder of the month the 
Regiment was in reserve with the Corps, and engaged in picket 



104 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

duty and in working on the fortifications. Each day one detail 
was made for the picket line and another to work on Fort Sedg- 
wick, called by the boys Fort Hell. This was a most dangerous 
duty and was performed under a deadly fire day and night. 

June 23rd. Lying behind our fortifications, were shelled by 
the Rebel artillery. Two killed and several wounded in the Regi- 
ment. Captain Ege was slightly wounded in the thumb by piece 
of shell. Heavy picket firing in our front, causing us to lie very 
low for fear of the Rebel bullets. Slept on our arms all night. 
Captain Lovett, of Company K, was dangerously wounded by a 
Confederate sharpshooter, the ball tearing open the mu.scles of his 
left arm. 

June 24th. Still in the same position ; nothing of importance 
occuring. Artillery duelling and picket firing all day in our front. 
Sharpshooters are at their infamous work : That of picking ofif our 
men whenever they expose themselves to their fire. After dark 
our pickets tried to advance their line, but were unable to do so 
on account of a heavy fire from the Rebel pickets. Hard fighting 
on our left; Second Corps engaged. It was the custom of the 
men working on the fortifications to have a man stationed in 
such a position that when a Confederate gun was fired, he could 
give the alarm, and if the men were quick enough they could jump 
out of the way and not be hurt ; but on the night of the 24th a 
detail was just about being relieved, and the men were all in a 
hurry to get out of the trenches and back to camp, and did not 
take the usual precaution to get under cover, when a shell was 
thrown over and exploded in their midst, and put several of them 
out of commission for some time. Among them was John E. 
Roberts, of Company C. A piece of the shell grazed his head 
and cut off the rim of his hat close to his head, but did not break 
the skin. The concussion from the shell injured him far more 
than did the piece of shell that grazed his head. Comrade 
Roberts was laid up for several months from this injury. 

June 25th. Still in the same position. Sergeant William 
D. Ritner, of Company D, was severely wounded by a Confeder- 
ate sharpshooter, and sent to the hospital. Sharp picket firing. 
Our pickets are about lOO yards in front of our line. 



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105 



Tune 26th. Sunday still finds us in our old position. No 
pickJt fiHng. Our pickets and the Rebs' pickets havng made a 
mutual agreement not to fire on one another. 

June 27th. Nothing of importance transp.rmg. Heat very 

""'T- 28th. No change of position. Our pickets and the 
Rebel pickets are very friendly, exchanging commodmes wth 
each other and carrying on friendly conversation. 

Tune 29th. The Company clerks are all very busy mak.ng 
out tlTmuL and pay rolls. Isaac Derr. of Company D wa 
wounded in the hand while on the p.cket Ime and sent to the hos 

^'" JunTsorwr— ed for pay. Everything continues 

^""D"uri:;t" month of July the Regiment had a varied e^ 
nerience in the battles of the skirmishers and the p.ckets m and 
S ore the entrenchments, and in heavy and exhaust.ve fat.gue 
duty. During this month it was engaged in the erecUon o ^ 
sixteen-gun earthwork variously designated as For Hell Tdton 
and Sedgwick. The work could only be performed at n.ght, by 
vWue of'the destructive fire from the sharpshooters, whtch swep 
the Union lines in the day time. Several members of the Reg. 
ment were killed and wounded during the month, on the p.cket 
line and while working on the fortifications. 

Jvdy 1st. Still in the same position ; some desultory art.Uery 

''"'"JX 2nd. Nothing new ; some artillery and musket firing on 
our right. Still in the same camp. 

Julv 3rd. Sunday, a very beautiful day, but f " -O' «a™ 
and dusty Had preaching in our Regiment by the Chaplain of 
the i4Qth Regiment, P. V., of our Brigade. 

The natal day of the nation opened up cloudy and we were 
expecting rain, but how vain our hopes, for by noon not a cloud 
I'd be'seen in the sky. In the morning every gtm beanng on 
the doomed citv was let loose and soon shot and shell went scream- 
'g and crashing into the Petersburg lines. This elicited an angr 
rellv from the enemy and was kept up for some tune, when ,t 



I06 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

gradually subsided. In the evening the bands of the Confeder- 
ates and our own each took positions on their breastworks. The 
Rebs played "Dixey" and our bands "Yankee Doodle." 

July 5th. The day passed quietly, nothing transpiring of 
importance. Still in the same position in rear of our works. 

July 6th. Heavy artillery duelling. Our Brigade com- 
menced erecting a Fort in front of our breastworks. 

July 7th. Nothing of importance transpiring. Very annoy- 
ing fire from a Rebel battery in our front. Received orders to be 
ready to leave in a moment's warning. Lay on our arms all night. 

July 8th. Left the breastworks at 4 a. m. Marched one mile 
to the rear and encamped in a nice shady woods to give the men a 
much needed rest. Everything quiet at the front. 

July 9th. The men were busily engaged all day in fixing up 
the camp and making themselves as comfortable as they could. 
The Rebels made a charge on our works on the right but were 
handsomely repulsed. Six members of the Regiment were 
wounded while working on the entrenchments to-day by the 
Rebels' shells. 

July loth. Sunday, an extremely beautiful day, heat very 
oppressive and the roads dusty. William W. Jones, of Company 
B, David Beaverson, of Company K, and Edward Bradley, of 
Company E, were wounded to-day. 

July nth. Still in camp. Detail made daily to work on 
the fortifications. Rebels shelled our men while working to-day. 
No one hurt. 

July 1 2th. Nothing transpiring of importance to-day. All 
is quiet at the front. 

July 13th. Nothing of moment transpiring. No mail from 
home. Men are feeling blue. 

July 14th. Still in the same camp. A large detail made to- 
day to work on the fortifications. The Rebels shelled them very 
hard to-day. One man of Company E, and one of Company H, 
wounded while at work. 

July 15th. Nothing occurring. Some picket firing. One 
man of Company F, wounded on the picket line. A mail of three 
letters for the Regiment received to-day. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 10/ 

July i6th. Men still working on the fortifications. Still no 
mail. 

July 17th. Still in camp. All is quiet along the line. Both 
armies seem inclined to respect the Sabbath day. 

July i8th. Everything quiet. Several Rebel deserters came 
into our lines last night. They are tired of the war and want 
to get home. 

July 19th. Still in the same camp. It commenced to rain 
early this morning. Rained incessantly all day. First rain since 
June 1st. 

July 20th. A very pleasant day indeed. The rain of yester- 
day has made it nice and cool. Nothing of importance has 
occurred to-day. 

July 2 1 St. Nothing transpiring worthy of note. Heavy 
cannonading and picket firing on our right. 

July 22nd. Nothing transpiring worthy of recording. Still 
lying in the old camp. 

July 23rd. Considerable firing of musketry and artillery on 
our right. 

July 24th. Still in camp ; nothing worthy of note occurring. 
Had Company inspection to-day. 

July 25th. Nothing of moment transpiring. Had Com- 
pany drill and inspection this morning. 

July 26th. Everything quiet in our front, save some ar- 
tillery and picket firing. 

July 27th. All quiet in our immediate front, but verv- heavy 
firing in the direction of Malvern Hill, the Second Corps having 
crossed the James river and advanced on the enemy's works, 
capturing four guns and some prisoners. Raining. 

July 28th. Still raining moderately. Cleared up at an early 
hour in the morning. Still in the same camp. 

July 29th. Nothing transpiring of note. A beautiful morn- 
ing. Received orders about noon to be ready to move at a mo- 
ment's warning. Remained in camp all night. 

The mine in preparation by Burnside was sprung, blowing 
up a Confederate fort in their front. The explosion was heard 
for miles. Our artillery along the whole line opened a terrific 



I08 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

fire upon the Rebs, which was kept up incessantly until noon. 
About 300 South Carolina troops were blown up with the fort. 
Sixteen guns were completely buried. Our infantry charged on 
the works soon after the blowing up of the fort and succeeded in 
taking the first line of works with heavy loss. During the after- 
noon, however, the Rebels made a successful charge, driving our 
men back into their own works again. Our Regiment was in 
reserve, but was not called upon for active service. 

July 31st, Nothing transpiring worthy of note. A large 
number of the Regiment went down to see the battlefield of yes- 
terday. Our dead and wounded still lying near the Rebel works 
unburied. The Rebels refused to accept a flag of truce sent over 
by our men in order to bury the dead. The fort, which was once 
a formidable work, now a mass of ruins. 

August 1st. Everything quiet in front. The boys received 
the news this evening that the Rebels were again in Maryland and 
Pennsylvania, and of the burning of Chambersburg. 

August 2nd. Still in the same camp. Everything still quiet. 
Report concerning the burning of Chambersburg confirmed. 
News was received that the Rebels have left the State. The 
members of Company D are feeling much better. Nearly all of 
the members of that Company are from the Cumberland Valley. 

August 3rd. Everything is quiet along the front. Still in 
the same camp. 

August 4th. Nothing transpiring of importance. Members 
of Company D received the names of the owners of the proper- 
ties burned at Chambersburg. 

August 6th. Weather very warm. Heavy fighting on the 
extreme right. The Rebels charged three successive times on our 
lines, but were handsomely repulsed each time. Rebels' loss 
heavy with the loss of 700 prisoners. 

August 6th. One-half of the Regiment was ordered to oc- 
cupy the fort in front of our Brigade. The first five Companies 
went out. Heavy mortar firing on the right. Lay in the fort 
all night. 

August 7th. Sunday. The five Companies relieved from 




CORPORAL ilEXRV M- FOOT. COMPANY A. 



GEORGE B. CUNNINGHAM, COMPANY A. 




COMPANY A. 




I CORPORAL GEORGE K. GROVE. 
-> IIEUTFWNT SAMUEL C. ILGEXFRITZ. 
Ml-SlCl.\x'\VlI.MOT AVRES. 4 CAPT. SAMrEL L ADAMS. 
COMPANY B. 



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the fort and marched back to camp. It was a very pleasant day. 
Heavy artillery duelling and picket firing during the afternoon. 

August 8th. Still in the same camp. Considerable artillery 
firing all day. 

August 9th. Nothing of importance transpiring except some 
desultory picket firing on the right. 

August loth. Still lying in the same camp. Nothing of im- 
portance occurring. Had Battalion drill in the forenoon and 
afternoon. Some artillery firing. 

August nth. All quiet along the line. Had Battalion drill 
in the forenoon and afternoon. Still in the same camp. 

August 1 2th. Nothing worthy of note transpiring. Heat 
very oppressive. Roads very dusty. Had Battalion drill in the 
evening. 

August 13th. Saturday all is quiet. Part of the Regiment 
lay in the fort in front of our Brigade all night. Some artillery 
firing during the night. 

August 14th. Sunday relieved from the fort. A very beau- 
tiful day. Still in the same camp. 

August 15th. Ordered to pack up and be ready to move at 
a moment's notice. Packed up. Some of the men proceeded 
to get breakfast and just as they were about to eat the order came 
to fall in. Moved to Division Headquarters and joined the rest 
of the Brigade. Halted in the woods all day. Had a very 
drenching rain in the evening. The men were all wet to the skin. 
Lay in the woods all night. 

August 1 6th. Moved about two hundred yards and pitched 
our tents. Everything very quiet along the line. Our Corps is 
relieved by the Ninth Army Corps. 

August 17th. Ordered to pack up and be ready to move at 
three o'clock a, m. Order countermanded. We were ordered 
to pitch our tents again in the same camp. Lay in the camp all 
day. All quiet in front. 



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TEARING UP WELDON RAILROAD. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY II ^ 



CHAPTER XL 



On the VVeldon Railroad. 

THE prelude to Warren's advance from the Jerusalem plank 
road to the Petersburg and Weldon R. R., came at 1.30 
a. m., August i8th, when the Rebels concentrated a severe 
fire upon the Fifth Corps on the left of Meade's army. At 4 a. 
m. the Fifth Corps, under command of that superb soldier, Gen- 
eral G. K. Warren, left its bivouac, and, with four days' rations 
marched down the plank road. The moving column was a fine 
spectacle to behold. Ten thousand true and tried soldiers march- 
ing under "Old Glory," and in defense of the Union ; their bay- 
onets sparkling in and reflecting the morning sunbeams made a 
fit subject for the historic painting. After marching four miles 
the column turned to the west from the Plank road. A march of 
about one mile brought the Corps into a grand old Virginia woods 
of magnificent oaks, chestnuts, etc. Here a line of battle was 
formed and the men stood to arms, while Warren stood a short 
distance from the 187th, surrounded by his Generals, holding a 
map of the country in his hand. Taking a twig from the ground 
he traced the line of march and the position which he desired his 
Division to occupy along the P. and W. R. R. The outlining of 
the movement concluded, the march was resumed, with the 187th 
and 143rd P. V. of the First Brigade of Griffin's Division in ad- 
vance. The march lay over a beautiful country and through 
great fields of corn. The skirmishers had already penetrated a 
deep, somber pine forest, and just as the Corps crossed its border, 
the sharp ring of musketry from the skirmishers announced the 
whereabouts of the Rebels. It was now 7 a. m. and the whole 
line swept forward, driving and capturing the opposing forces, 
and at 9 a. m. Griffin's Division crossed the Weldon railroad. 

The 187th and the 143rd P. V. fell to destroying the rail- 
road, while the rest of the Brigade formed line of battle across the 



Il6 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

road at the Globe or Yellow Tavern. Ayres' and Crawford's Di- 
vision was in support of the entire movement along the railroad. 
•The advance northward relieved that part of the First Brigade in 
line at the Globe Tavern, when it retired and assisted in the de- 
struction of the railroad. 

About 2 p. m. Ayres was furiously assailed, and the Rebels 
began pouring through the interval between his right and the left 
of the old line before Crawford, who was directed toward that 
point, but could not reach it, because of the difficult nature of the 
ground. Cutler supported Crawford and Griffin stood in reserve 
to Ayres. From 4 to 6 p. m. the 187th, with Griffin's Division, 
was subjected to a converging fire of shot and shell. At 6 p. m. 
the Division of Ayres and Crawford, supported by Griffin and 
Cutler, moved forward in the midst of a heavy rain storm, driv- 
ing the Rebels before them with heavy loss. Repeated sallies 
were made by the enemy during the night, but they were the 
futile efforts of an exhausted wrestler, and left the Union lines 
intact. Thus ended the battle of Yellow House, or Davis Farm. 

Weldon Railroad, August 19TH. 

All through the night the rain fell, and Warren's men, too 
much exhausted by the fighting of the previous day, slept on their 
arms, heedless of the storm and rain, and before the dawning of 
the day, they began to ply the pick and shovel, and by 4 p. m. of 
the 20th, had completed a strong line of entrenchments west of 
the railroad, near the Globe Tavern, and northward at Davis Farm. 
Wilcox's Ninth Corps men had come up and partially filled up the 
gap between the lines. About 4 p. m., in the midst of a drenching 
rain storm, the enemy moved to the attack. The battle raged for 
half an hour with terrible fury. A sheet of flame ran along the 
Union line, but on came the foe, and perceiving the yet dangerous 
gap between Wilcox and Crawford, the Rebels poured through it 
and began a desperate attempt to turn Warren's right and drive 
him from the entrenched lines along the railroad. The Union- 
ists were steadily pushed from their works north of the Globe 
'lavern. It was a critical moment and fraught with tremendous 
consequences to the Union cause. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY II7 

At this juncture Griffin's Division moved to the support of 
Crawford, while the Ninth Corps troops formed on his right. 
The concussion of the Union cannon shook the earth and the 
sharp ring of the musketry was heard above the storm as death 
and destruction was poured into the faces of the oncoming Rebels. 
The first Brigade of Griffin's Division was formed immediately in 
the rear of a line of batteries ; that line carried and all would be 
lost. 

Here stood the 187th, and from that line it moved forward, 
wet to the skin, and just as darkness was about to throw her 
mantle over the scene of blood and carnage, the insolent Rebels 
were driven back over the water-soaked plain and far into the 
cover of the dark woods beyond. General Ayres, commanding 
the Second Division, Fifth Corps, commented thus upon the action 
of the Regiment in this engagement : "I asked for 500 men to 
reinforce the right of my front. The 187th P. V. was given 
and moved rapidly up in line of battle. This Regiment perform- 
ed its duty handsomely." 

On the 19th they made another desperate attack on our 
forces, and succeeded in driving a part of our division out of their 
works. Reinforcements were called for and the 187th P. V. was 
sent to their support. About 4 o'clock a charge was ordered to 
retake the works, which we did without the loss of a single man. 
But when marching to take our position to make the charge, the 
Confederates shelled us and killed Joseph A. Shaw, Samuel D. 
Lutz and Henry Toomy, of Company D. Uriah Stahl, of the 
same Company, was wounded this day. 

We drove the Confederates out and held the works all night. 
It began to rain furiously just as we drove the enemy out and 
took possession of the works. Right in front of Company A the 
line took a sharp turn. A few rails, logs and limbs of trees had 
been thrown down and dirt piled upon them from both sides. The 
ground was very swampy, and the rain soon formed quite a depth 
of water on each side of the trenches. The Confederates kept up 
a brisk fire and we had to settle down in the mud and water to 
obtain protection. 

Night came on, and the rain and firing still kept up. About 



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midnight it was discovered that the water was washing the earth 
away in front, and it was necessary for some one to get over and 
shovel new earth to cover up the gap made at the angle in front of 
Company A. Otherwise our protection would be gone and the 
men be in danger of a deadly cross fire from the enemy. 

Captain Hart, the commander of Company A, which lay at 
that point, hesitated to order a detail for the work, so he called 
for volunteers to engage in the dangerous work. 

The enterprise was not only dangerous, but it was a hundred 
chances to one that the person attempting it would be carried to 
the rear riddled with bullets. It was certain that as soon as the 
sound of the shovel was heard the enemy, lying directly in front 
and but a short distance away, would direct their fire to the spot. 

Every one saw the situation and naturally no one was in 
haste to volunteer. Finally several members of Company A, 
Corporal William A. Stone, Privates Alonzo Mack, Richard Fry, 
Samuel D. Frances, and one or two others whose names I do not 
now remember, stepped to the front and said without any flourish, 
and as though it was the most ordinary affair of their life, that 
they would undertake the job. 

They did not seem anxious to go, and there was no air of 
bravado about them. They simply esteemed the act to be in the 
line of duty, and if that was the case it made no difference to them 
whether the performance were dangerous or not. They saw also 
that the Hves of their comrades were at stake, and it was neces- 
sary for some one to throw up the defence that had been washed 
away, in the interest of saving life. 

Shovels were obtained and Stone and the rest of the vol- 
unteers climbed over the breastworks and began their work. Sure 
enough, as soon as the sound of the shovels was heard, the bullets 
of the Confederates began to fall thick and fast about them. One 
struck Mack's shovel fair on the flat surface and sent it spinning 
out of his hand, but he at once picked it up and shoveled away 
again as if nothing had happened. Frances was wounded in the 
shoulder, from the effect of which he suffered for a long time. 
All held their breath, expecting every moment that they would be 
struck ; and while we were crouching behind the works in com- 



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parative safety, they shoveled as leisurely as though they were 
working in their gardens at home. How they ever escaped was 
a mystery to us all. For fifteen or twenty minutes they worked 
with their backs to the enemy, under a constant fire, until the 
breach was repaired ; and then climbed back, Mack saying quietly, 
"I guess it is all now, boys." And every one felt like hugging 
them for their brave act. 

Frances was wounded and sent to the hospital. Fry was 
captured and sent to the southern prisons and held there until the 
following Spring, when he was exchanged ; the result of Mack's 
exertion was a severe cold, and he gradually went down to the 
grave soon after the war. 

Weldon Railroad, August 20Th. 

Ml through the night the Regiment was exposed to heavy 

fire in its advanced position, and during the morning the enemy 

kept up a constant and annoying picket and skirmish fire, while 

the entrenchments received the compliments of the Rebel cannon- 

Henrv Toomy died this morning from the efifect of the 
wounds received yesterday. He and Joseph A. Shaw and Samuel 
D Lutz, who were killed yesterday, were buried side by side. 

On the afternoon of the 20th, the Regiment was returned to 
the original line of works in front of the Globe Tavern, the men 
thinking thev would be able to take a little much needed rest. 
Some of them, in fact all of them, began to dry their water-soak- 
ed clothing, but just in the midst of it. an order came to the Regi- 
ment for a detail of 50 men for picket duty. The detail was made 
and the men reported at Headquarters, and was marched out to 
the \^aughn road where they jointed the detail made from the 
other Regiments of Griffin's Division. The picket line was form- 
ed diagonally along the \^aughn road, where they remained until 
driven in bv Mahone's Division, on the morning of the 21st. 

The following account of the engagement on the picket line is 
given bv Major G. C. Hooper, of the First Michigan. 

-On our first occupancy of the Weldon railroad. I was Di- 
vision Officer of the picket, and on Saturday, the 20th of Au- 



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gust, I received a summons to report to General Charles C. Grif- 
fin, our Division Commander. 

"He said to me, 'Major, we will probably be attacked early 
to-morrow morning, and nothing so discourages an enemy as to 
find a determined resistance on the picket line. Your position 
is a long way in front, and if you give them a good fight it will 
greatly weaken them by the time they reach the breastworks.' 

"At 3 o'clock the next morning I was on the extreme right, 
and in company with one of the Captains of a New York Regi- 
ment, watched the line until about 7 o'clock. It was quite foggy 
and the woods in front of our right were very thick and I thought 
that would be the point of attack, 

"At last the fog cleared up and I said to the Captain, 'If they 
were going to attack us, it would have been under cover of the 
fog, but you can keep a sharp lookout, though I think we will not 
have a fight this morning.' 

"Our picket fine extended diagonally out to the Vaughn road, 
which we had barricaded, and at a house on the opposite side of 
the road we kept a guard. At the barricade was a strong de- 
tachment of Pennsylvania men, and in the woods in the rear 
of the corn field, was a reserve of the i6th Michigan men. under 
Captain Sutter; the men of my own Regiment were in the picket 
pits. 

"When I left the New York pickets I rode down the line to 
the ii8th P. V. pickets, and was told by the officer commanding, 
that the woman occupying the house was from Philadelphia, and 
wanted to come into our lines and wanted transportation for her 
things. I went to see her and advised her to take her children and 
go inside of our lines at once, and send for her things afterward. 
While we were talking a soldier came in and said that they 
had discovered the enemy and the Captain wanted to see me. I 
told the woman in case firing commenced, to take her children 
and go into the cellar, and hastened outside. The Captain said 
that they were relieving the cavalry pickets with infantry and 
asked if we were to fire. I directed him not to fire unless they 
left their lines and advanced toward us. 

"Just then one of the men said : 'There they go,' and looking 



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121 



down the Vaughn road we saw them in their lines of battle, and 
with heads depressed and backs bent making a rush across the 
road beyond the rise of ground so as not to be seen. 

"We at once began firing. When we did so their skirmish 
line rose up out of the meadows and potato fields very near to us, 
but we stopped them and held them until their lines of battle 
were very near to us, when I ordered my men to fall back to the 
woods and form a new line. 

"Captain Salter had brought up his men and made a stiff 
fight, and did not move from our line until their lines of battle 
were well developed in our front. 

"At the woods we halted and warmed them again, then pass- 
ed through the woods, halted, faced about and gave them another 
dose, and when they were quite near I ordered the men to jom 
their Regiments, behind the breastworks. 

"I was delighted with the way the pickets behaved. As 
usually when men in battle are ordered to fall back to a certain 
point, in the excitement of the fight, or because the order is not 
correctly understood, they go too far, but in this instance the men 
of Pennsylvania and Michigan obeyed orders to the letter; made 
the stubborn fight which the General desired, and which as I 
afterward learned, he commended very highly to his Staff." 

Now the Rebels took this point for the left of Warren's 
line, and thev advanced as on parade, confidently looking for sure 
success, and every Rebel gun bearing on this point, by its fire 
stimulated this confidence. But just as they were about to strike 
the supposed left, they were caught in a destructive fire of grape 
and canister from the batteries on either flank. Then they realiz- 
ed that thev had struck that part of Griffin's Division where his 
lines were 'formed in echelon, and into their faces they received 
a fire from the 187th, and the other troops of the First Brigade 
that covered the ground with the dead and wounded of the as- 
saulting column. They had made a gallant advance and met with 
as gallant a repulse from Grifiin's men, and, bleeding at every 
pore, thev fell back hopelessly defeated. 

Under the well-directed fire of the 187th, many of the enemy 
were captured and brought into the lines. Several gallant dashes 



122 HISTORY OF iS/TH REGIMENT 

were made by some of the officers and men of the Regiment, in 
which nearly two hundred Rebels were brought into the works. 
The enemy continued to move to the left, for the purpose of turn- 
ing the flank, but here he was met by some Pennsylvania cavalry 
and checked. The 187th, with part of the Brigade, was hurried 
to this point and was soon entrenched across the railroad on 
White's farm and two miles south of the Globe Tavern. 

The result of the two days' lighting was 800 hundred pris- 
oners taken by our Brigade and six stands of colors. 

August 2ist. 

It was Sunday, and the sun mounted up into a clear blue 
sky and made all the land rejoice in its Summer beauty, while the 
Fifth Corps hailed its calmness and quietly rested in its line along 
the railroad, and glad to be relieved from the pitiless storm of the 
night, the men were gathered in little groups, rehearsing the 
events of the three previous days, etc., and indulging the hope 
that the day of rest would bring rest from the storm of war. 
To them it was a glorious day and the birds filled all the plain 
with music. Suddenly, the storm cloud of war burst over the 
plain and turned its quiet into tumultous uproar. At 9 a. m. the 
Rebels opened a converging artillery fire of 30 guns at right 
angles over Warren's position, and attempted to sweep the Fifth 
Corps from its position. This having failed, a desperate assault 
was made all along the right, but was everywhere repulsed, and 
the Rebels, bleeding and torn, sullenly retired from the dead- 
ly fire poured from the Union entrenchments. While the attack 
on the right was in progress, the enemy pushed a heavy column 
down the Vaughn road, and under cover of the dense woods, at- 
tempted to reach and turn Warren's left. Griffin's Division was 
strongly entrenched here, with one Brigade advanced about 500 
yards, where it connected with Ayres on the right. 

General Warren, in summing up the operations on the Wel- 
don railroad, remarks : "During these four days' operations, 
men and officers performed their duties as well as any ever did 
under the circumstances. The heat of the first day was exces- 
sive. The men were kept working night and day and were every 



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day wet through with the rains. The P. and W. R. R. was a 
serious loss to Lee, since it cut off one of the main sources of 
supply for his army, and this is evident from the desperate at- 
tempt made to regain it." ., r^- . 
Brevet Brigadier General Winthrop, commandmg the First 
Brigade, Second Division, Fifth Corps, remarked: "I had scarcely 
sent my message for reinforcements, when General Ayres sent 
me the 187th P. V. I at once ordered them to move up to the 
front line of works and form on the right of the 54th N. Y. Vet. 
Vols., which they did in magnificent style, and soon became ac- 
tively engaged." 

The Weldon Railroad Campaign, From the Diary of Lieu- 
tenant John E. Reilly, of Company F. 
On the morning of August 15th we were ordered down the 
Jerusalem plank road, to join the other Regiments of the Brigade, 
who were bivouaced in the woods, preparatory for the advance 
on the Weldon R. R. It rained heavily all day and also on the 
next dav. About 2 o'clock on the morning of the 17th we were 
ordered'into line readv to move, but the order was countermanded 
shortlv after, and we pitched tents again. Towards evening the 
Sutler's wagon came up and the officers were kept busy writing 
orders for the men to get tobacco, condensed milk, etc. That 
night an order was again issued for us to be ready to move early 
next morning. On the i8th, at daybreak, we started on what we 
supposed at the time was merely a raid, to tear up the tracks of 
the road, but when we reached there after our long march m line 
of battle formation, in advance of the Brigade, we found that Gen- 
eral Warren had other business for us. for as he said when he 
reached there, if the Rebels wanted that road again, they would 
have to fio-ht for it. When we halted and commenced tearing up 
the tracks about 10.30 a. m.,GeneralCuder'sDivision advanced be- 
yond us until thev were checked by the enemy in force behind a 
line of works to the right and front of the Yellow House, where 
General Warren made his Headquarters. The ^laryland Bri- 
gade, of the Second Division of the Fifth Corps, met with heavy 
loss when the 187th was ordered up to their support. Shortly we 



124 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

were ordered back to the railroad and commenced building a line 
of breastworks running parallel with the road, but before com- 
pleting them, the enemy charged around the right of the railroad, 
capturing part of Lisle's Brigade of our Division. When our 
Regiment was ordered double-quick up the railroad and across 
to the right in support of a field battery which the enemy were 
then trying to capture, and notwithstanding the drenching rain 
and the terrific fire of the heavy guns which Mahone's Division 
had bearing on us, we drove their advance back, and saved the 
battery from capture, and soon after charged to the outer line 
and recaptured the line of rifle pits in which Lisle's men had been 
captured, and strengthened them that night. It was still raining 
ver}' hard. The men were obliged to lie behind these improvised 
works in deep mud. In the evening we were withdrawn from 
this line, and ordered to take positions behind the breastworks 
that we were building on the morning of the 19th. The works 
of the Fourth Division, running across the railroad, lapped our 
right, about two hundred yards, and about the same distance in 
advance of us, between their works and ours was a swamp run- 
ning down to the left of our line. The enemy thinking that the 
left of Cutler's works was the extreme left of our lines, on the 
morning of the 21st, Haygood's Brigade of Mahone's Division, 
made a desperate charge around and over the left of these works 
while Cutler's men were still behind the same, and when they 
found themselves in the swamp between our two lines of works, 
they seemed to be bewildered. General Griffin ordered one of 
our batteries to fire in the rear of them to keep them from going 
back, and called upon our men to try to get around their left. A 
large number of the officers and men of the Regiment jumped 
over the work and were soon engaged in a hand to hand en- 
counter with the South Carolina men, and began to take them as 
prisoners. The color bearer of one of the. South Carolina Regi- 
ments commenced to tear his colors from the staff, when I reach- 
ed for them, and pulled them away from him and handed them 
back to the men behind me to pass over the works. I went for 
General Haygood's horse that was galloping towards me, but be- 
fore I could get the bridle rein he dropped at my feet. Shortly 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INEANTRY 12$ 

after this Captain Daily, of General Cutler's Staff, rode up to 
General Haygood, and .demanded his surrender, whereupon Gen- 
eral Havgood drew his revolver and shot Daily in the breast, in- 
flicting upon him a very severe wound. General Haygood then 
jumped on Captain Daily's horse and tried to get away, but a well 
directed volley from our men behind the works who saw the 
cowardly act, brought both horse and rider to the ground The 
horse, in his death struggle, kicked one of the Surgeons o Hay- 
good's Brigade in the head, inflicting a very severe wound 

The result of this engagement was the loss to General Ma- 
hone of several hundred prisoners, and several battle flags. Gen- 
eral Mahone then found that the left of our line was not very 
well protected and made a move in that direction. The 187th 
Regiment was at once ordered to that point as far south as 
AVhite's farm, when we drove the Rebels back and fortified the 
road at that point. The flag referred to above was passed back 
to the Provost Guard, and was turned over to Headquarters by 
them, and I think that one of the i8th Massachusetts Regiment 
received the credit for capturing it. 

A few days following this engagement I had occasion to call 
on General Griffin, when he spoke of the service of the 187th Regi- 
ment, complimenting us by saying that our movement to the right, 
on the 19th, was very opportune. That we not only saved that 
ffeld battery from being captured, but prevented a flanking move- 
ment which the enemy was about putting into execution, which, 
if successful, they would have gotten around our right and rear, 
which might have been very disastrous to the Fifth Corps. The 
Ninth Corps coming up on our right through the night of the 
same day prevented a recurrence of that attempt. 



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CHAPTER XIL 



At Ream's Station. 

FROM the 2 1 St to the 25th, Hancock had been operating seven 
miles south of Warren's position at Ream's Station. On 
the 25th the Second Corps met with a repulse at that point. 
During the fighting Warren stood to arms, and the 187th, with 
Griffin's Division, was moved out into the road in marching order 
to go to Hancock's support. No order reaching it, with the Di- 
vision, returned to camp and continued in P. & W. R. R. lines. 

September 4th was completed a strong work on the left of 
Warren's line, designated as Fort White. Operations on it had 
been steadily going on from August 22nd by the First Brigade, 
First Division, Fifth Corps, to which the 187th was attached. 
This work was frequently interrupted by cavalry dashes from the 
enemy, and had to stop while the troops moved out and drove off 
the Rebels. 

Fort White and the Left of the Line, September 15-16TH. 

On the 15th the picket firing became general, and part of the 
Fifth Corps moved out toward the Vaughn road. The firing 
continued all the morning. The 187th was under arms from 3 
a. m. to 2 p. m., when it moved into and held Fort White. The 
Rebels, not venturing to attack it, returned to camp at dusk. 

The 1 6th came, full of alarms and excitements. At an early 
hour the Fifth Corps stood to arms. Heavy skirmishing was en- 
gaged in, and the Rebels came out in force three miles to the west- 
ward. At 8 a. m. the 187th broke camp and moved east across 
the P. & W. R. R., where it held the left of Warren's line and 
the extreme left of the Army of the Potomac. 

The advanced column, having accomplished its purpose, 
which was none other than the inauguration of Warren's raid into 
North Carolina, returned to the P. & W. R. R. 



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CHAPTER XIII. 



Ordered to Department of Pennsylvania. 

SEPTEMBER 2ist, by special orders, the 187th was trans- 
ferred to the Department of Pennsylvania. It struck tents 
and bade farewell to its comrades of the intrepid Fifth 
Corps, and marched from its place in the Army of the Potomac. 

On the 22nd it marched to within three miles of City Point. 

On the 23rd the Regiment embarked on the steamboat 
Wenonah and soon was steaming down the beautiful and historic 
James. Crossing the Chesapeake during the night, the dawn of 
the 24th found the Wenonah gliding through the waters of the 
Potomac. The same day the Regiment reached Washington and 
was quartered at the Soldiers' Retreat until the 26th, when it pro- 
ceeded by rail to Philadelphia, where it arrived on the 27th and 
breakfasted at the Union Volunteer and Cooper Shop Refresh- 
ment Saloons, after which the march was taken up over Chest- 
nut street to Ridge avenue to Camp Cadwallader. The 187th was 
welcomed to the city by the ringing of bells and other demonstra- 
tions of loyal regard and joy. 

At Camp Cadwallader. 
The Regiment arrived at Camp Cadwallader about noon on 
Saturdav, September 27th. The camp was situated in the north- 
ern section of the city of Philadelphia, near the Odd Fellows' 
cemetery, and was composed of several acres of land surrounded 
by a high picket fence. This fence was taken down sometime 
during the Fall, and a solid board fence, sixteen feet high, was 
built. This fence had a boardwalk three feet wide near the top 
for the guard to walk on. In the enclosure were frame build- 
ings for the various departments, cook house, mess house, hos- 
pital and quarters for the dififerent officers, there were ten build- 
ings for quarters for the men, with separate quarters for the Com- 



128 HISTORY OF iS/TH REGIMENT 

pany officers. The nature of the soil was such that as soon as it 
rained, the camp was a big mud hole. When the Regiment arrived 
there we were not permitted to occupy the barracks, but were put 
down in one corner of the camp near the city's pest house, with- 
out any protection from the cold nights but the piece of shelter 
tent that we had carried all Summer, Our clothing was scant 
and thin, and the nights were cold, but we were not allowed to 
have any fire to keep ourselves warm. Some of the boys gather- 
ed wood and built a small fire, but it was soon kicked out by Cap- 
tain Cohen, or Captain Etting, who seemed to be prowling around 
the camp in search of trouble. Our officers as soon as we reach- 
ed the camp had requisitions made out for clothing for the men, 
but it seemed as though the clothing had to be made before we 
could get it. It was a week or ten days before the clothing reach- 
ed us. All the time Colonel Beach, the commandant of the camp, 
was finding fault and scolding about the appearance of the men, 
which we were not able to remedy until the clothing were issued 
to us from the Quartermaster's Department. We had not drawn 
any clothing since early in May and had been with the Army of 
the Potomac from Cold Harbor, until after the battle of the Wel- 
don Railroad. 

When we reached Camp Cadwallader, the Regiment was in 
command of Captain Joseph A. Ege, of Company D. Colonel 
Schultz had never been with the Regiment. Lieutenant Colonel 
Joseph F. Ramsey had been dismissed and Major George W. Mer- 
rick had been discharged on account of wounds received at Peters- 
burg, June 1 8, 1864, his leg being amputated from the eflfect 
of said wound. This condition of afifairs made some of the of- 
ficers on duty at the camp look with longing eyes at the vacant 
places in the Regiment, and they began to send petitions to Gov- 
ernor A. G. Curtin, asking him to appoint Captain Morganthaler, 
of the 98th P. v., and Captain Rockafellow, another officer on 
duty at the camp, to the vacant offices in the Regiment. These 
petitions, signed by all the officers on duty at Camp Cadwallader, 
are still on file in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. 
In a short time an order was issued placing Captain Morgan- 
thaler in command of the Regiment. On the 27th of January, 



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1865, Captain John E. Parsons, of the 150th P. V., was made 
Lieutenant Colonel of the Regiment at the request of the Company 
officers, and on the nth of May was made Colonel. Captain 
Ege was then made Lieutenant Colonel, and Captain Seip, of 
Company B, Major. 

The duties of the Regiment while at this camp were mostly 
guard and provost duty. Nearly every week a detachment was 
sent to City Point, or Washington, with recruits or drafted men. 
Upon several occasions the Regiment was called upon to perform 
escort duty at the funeral of some prominent soldier, one of whom 
was Major General David B. Birney. 

On the 22nd of April, 1865, the Regiment acted as escort and 
guard of honor at the funeral of President Abraham Lincoln. 

The advent of the Regiment into this camp was the begin- 
ning of a term of hardship, contempt and cruelty on the part 
of its commandant and other officers, that soon won for them 
the complete hatred of every soldier in the 187th. The Philadel- 
phia papers of that day contain graphic accounts of the condition 
of things at Camp Cadwallader. 

Philadelphia Lnouirer, December 24. 1864. 

Captain Cohen, stationed at Camp Cadwallader, was bound 
over by Alderman White on Tuesday evening, charged with 
misdemeanor, by keeping the bounty money of Oliver D. Beamish, 
a minor under eighteen years of age. It seems that on the 
7th of August last, Oliver enlisted in the 20th Regiment Penn- 
sylvania Volunteers, and received the city bounty of two hundred 
and fifty dollars. This money is alleged to have been taken from 
the lad by the Captain, who gave him a receipt for it. The 
father of the lad went out to camp and the receipt was transferred 
tjo him. Since that time the money has been retained by the 
Captain. He refuses to pay it over. 

Philadelphia Lxqlirer. January, 1864. 
Camp Cadwallader. Xo military rendezvous of any kind es- 
tablished in this city since the breaking out of the war has been 
the cause of so much complaint, or the source of as luany com- 



134 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

munications to the press of a disparaging character, as Camp 
Cadwallader. These complaints consist mainly of suffering en- 
dured by the men stationed there, and injustice done them by 
a certain set of unprincipled officials who have charge of matters 
and things generally within the enclosure. Filthy quarters, 
miserable diet, embezzlement of money belonging to soldiers, an 
utter disregard for the welfare and comfort of the men, consti- 
tute a portion of the evils complained of, and which have caused 
so many desertions that would otherwise not have taken place. 

It is to be hoped that the recent new regulations of the War 
Department, and the appointment of new ofificials, will produce 
a wholesome state of afifairs at Camp Cadwallader. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 135 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Lincoln's Funeral. 

THE following was taken from the Philadelphia Press a few 
days following the death of President McKinley : Hun- 
dreds of Philadelphians who read yesterday that there was 
a possibility that the remains of William McKinley might lie in 
state at Independence Hall, recalled those memorable two days of 
1865, when the body of the murdered Lincoln rested in the temple 
of American liberty. 

It was on Saturday, the 22nd of x\pril, that the funeral train 
from Washington pulled into the old Baltimore depot, at Broad 
street and Washington avenue. Thousands lined the tracks and 
thousands more the city streets. Business had lagged through the 
day and by noon not a store nor warehouse was open, and when 
the signal gun of the University Light Artillery, stationed at 
Broad and Market streets, boomed out the news that the "hearse 
car" had drawn into the station, the citizens of Philadelphia stood 
in solemn silence to see the body of the Great Leader, as it was 
put in "The Press" of April 24, 1865. ''Admiring thousands only 
four years ago greeted him with shouts of applause upon his re- 
ception in Philadelphia; now wearing badges of mourning, they 
had assembled to pay the sad tribute of a tear over his corpse." 

"The entire city was hung in black, with a few private resi- 
dences in disgraceful exception," as the papers of the day ex- 
pressed it. The flags, half-masted, hung inactive under the pass- 
ing showers, or flapped disconsolately in the cold air which now 
and again blew the gray clouds across the sky. 

The bells throughout the city tolled in muffled strokes as the 
funeral procession started, keeping up that sad accompaniment till 
the body was laid in state in the chamber under the very flag pole 
which Lincoln himself had dedicated. 



136 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Major General Cadwallader rode at the head of the first of 
the twelve divisions, followed by the 187th Regiment, Pennsylva- 
nia Volunteers, the 24th United States Colored Troops, the Broad 
Street Cadets, the Keystone Battery and the First City Troop. 
Then came the catafalque. 

"The car," to again quote from "The Press," "was sixteen 
feet by eight was composed of a dais upon which the remains 
rested, five feet from the ground, the coffin being elevated six 
inches above this. Upon four columns extending upward from 
each corner of the dais, rested a canopy of fine black broadcloth, 
relieved by silver orris lace and bullion. 

"At each there was a curtain extending from the canopy to the 
dais, and black tassels, interwined with silver lace, were placed 
along the sides of the car. The canopy was surmounted by a 
large black plume in the center, and, on either side, by an Ameri- 
can ensign, the staffs tipped with eagles of silver." 

Before half of the line of march had been covered, darkness 
had fallen, but colored fires were lit through the streets, and when 
at last the catafalque came to a stop before the central gateway 
of Independence Square, the whole green area was as bright as 
day from their lights. Lining the main walk stood the members 
of the Union League Club, one of whom, writing of the scene, 
has said : "It was grand, sublime, solemn, as the bearers with 
slow and measured tread, passed up the central avenue and reach- 
ed the hall consecrated to human liberty, and then appropriate 
to the reception of all that remained of the mortality of its great 
martyr." 

The main chamber of Independence Hall, walls and ceiling, 
was draped in heavy black, relieved only by great wreaths of im- 
mortelles which hung between the windows and the pictures of 
Penn, Washington, Lafayette and Decatur; over the main door 
on the Chestnut street front twined the letters, "Rest in Peace." 

Shortly after 8 o'clock, the city authorities, invited guests 
and members of the press were admitted, and about 10 o'clock 
the general public began to pass in two long black lines by the 
black-shrouded railings which surrounded the casket. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 1 37 

Among the first was a woman, no longer young and making 
no effort to keep back her tears. Speechlessly she handed one of 
the guard of honor a rudely made wreath, twined by her own 
hands, from ivy and fir, and he, rising to the truth of that gift, 
silently hung it among the most honored tributes near the head of 
the man that dwelt so close to the hearts of the people. 

Sunday, the 23rd, dawned cloudy and threatening, but long 
before 5 o'clock crowds had begun to gather before the old State 
House. By 11 o'clock the lines passing through the building 
reached along Chestnut street, west to Twentieth, and east to the 
wharf and from there to Vine. It is estimated that fully 187,000 
viewed the remains. 

During the morning, the crowd in the street before Inde- 
pendence Hall broke through the police lines into the chamber 
where the body lay. The building and the streets were cleared, 
but entering the houses on the north side of the street through 
rear alleys, and in many cases paying householders well for ad- 
mission, the crowd again assembled and again broke through the 
lines. In the press which followed men fought and women faint- 
ed, and only the prompt arrival and vigorous action of the troops, 
prevented serious trouble. 

On Saturday, April 22nd, at noon, the 187th Regiment left 
Camp Cadwallader and marched to the Philadelphia, Wilmington 
and Baltimore depot, at Broad street and Washington avenue, 
and upon the arrival of the funeral train from Washington, took 
up the march over the following route : Up Broad street to 
Walnut, to Twenty-first, to Chestnut, to Fourth, to Walnut, where 
a halt was made until the body of the lamented President was 
born into Independence Hall. The Regiment was then marched 
back to camp, and remained there all night. The next morning 
it was ordered to Independence Hall, where it remained all day 
and all night preserving order and keeping the vast crowd of 
people at the point of the bayonet. 

At 5 o'clock the last of the 187,000 people passed through 
Independence Hall and took a last look at the man that the soldiers 
all loved. 



138 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

The casket was again placed upon the funeral car and was 
escorted by the 187th Regiment to the Kensington depot, on its 
way to its last resting place at Springfield, Illinois. The Regi- 
ment returned to Camp Cadwallader, reaching there about 10 
o'clock a. m. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY I39 



CHAPTER XV. 



On Detached Service in Pennsylv^ania. 

MAY II, 1865, Camp Cadwallader rang with the hurrahs of 
the 187th, because it was the day of deUverance from 
cruel indignity, etc. On this day the Regiment was sent 
to various parts of the State on provost duty. Company A re- 
mained in Philadelphia; I was sent to McConnelsburg; D to 
Chambersburg ; H, C, K, G to Spring Mills ; E and F to Camp 
Distribution, near Braddock, on the Monongahela river, and B 
to Bedford. The duty demanded of these detached portions of 
the Regiment was in the nature arduous and at times dangerous. 

The March to Spring Mills. 

On the nth day of May, 1865, the following order was 
issued : 

Headquarters, Rendezvous Drafted 
Men, 

Special Orders, Philadelphia, Pa., 

No. 81. May 11, 1865. 

Extract. 

V. Pursuant to instructions from the Adjutant General's 
office, War Department, the following Companies of the 187th 
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers are hereby relieved from duty 
at this Rendezvous and will proceed under command of Captain 
William Young to Camp Discharge, near Spring Mills, Penna. : 

Company "C," Captain William Young. 
Company "G," Captain William H. Carling. 
Company "H," Captain Charles W. Mutchler. 
Company "K," Lieutenant George S. Walker. 



140 HISTORY OF 187TII REGIMENT 

\'I. Upon arrival at their destination, Captain Young will 
report with his command for duty to Brevet Lieutenant Colonel 
John Hancock, A. A. G., Vols., commanding Camp Discharge. 

Assistant Surgeon Theodore Jacobs, 187th Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, is hereby released from duty at this Rendezvous and 
will report to Captain William Young, 187th Pennsylvania Vol- 
unteers, for duty with the detachment of the 187th P. V. under 
his command. 

VII. The A. A. Quartermaster and Commissary will fur- 
nish the detachment of the 187th P. V. under the command of 
Captain Young, with one day's cooked rations. 

By command of Brevet Brigadier General, 

a. cummings. 
David F. Foley, 
Official : Major V. R. C. and A. A. A. G. 

David F. Foley, 

Major V. R. C. and A. A. A. G. 

Pursuant to the above order. Companies C, G, H and K, of 
the 187th P. v., left Camp Cadwallader on the 12th of May to 
march to Camp Discharge, at Spring Mills, Montgomery county, 
Pa. The route of march was up Ridge avenue to Manayunk, 
where they crossed the Schuylkill river to west side, and con- 
tinued their march up along the west bank of the river. They 
had hardly more than crossed the river when a heavy thunder 
storm came up and lasted all the afternoon and nearly all night. 
The march was a hard one for the men, as they had not done any 
marching for several months, and in addition to that they were 
loaded down with extra clothing, so before the march was half 
over, the men were pretty well fagged out. When the storm 
broke on them they were given orders to seek shelter wherever 
they could find it. Some found it in barns, some in a large cover- 
ed bridge, while others plodded on to camp, arriving there cover- 
ed with mud and wet to the skin. Some of them looked as if 
they had been taking a mud bath with their clothes on. The 
camp was situated on the west bank of the Schuylkill river on 
what is now called Spring Mill Heights, and was used as a Ren- 



rENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY I4I 

dezvous for the men returning from the front to be discharged. 
\ laro-e number of men were sent there that had been confined m 
ihe various Rebel prisons for months. Some of them were m 
such a feeble condition that they could hardly walk, and a num- 
ber of them never reached their homes. They died at the camp 
and were buried in the little cemetery just outside of the camp. 
The duty of the 187th P. V. while there was prmcipally the 
ordinary camp guard duty. A large detail was made each day to 
work a't digging down the hill in order to make a level parade 

^'^^The camp was a healthy one and the good people of the 
surrounding country were good and kind to the boys while there ; 
in fact it was a heaven in comparison with Camp Cadwallader. 

Here the four Companies remained until the latter part of 
July when we were ordered to Harrisburg to be mustered out of 
the service. 

Mustered Out. 

During July and August, the 187th was concentrated at Har- 
risburg, where, on the 3rd of August, it ceased to be a part of 
the volunteer forces called into the service of the Government for 



lion. 



the suppression of the rebelli 

The 187th was marshalled by the dauntless Chamberlain, 
the heroic Griffin and the superb Warren. It bore aloft the 
Maltese cross and did the bidding of Grant and Meade as it moved 
under ^'Old Glory" from the Potomac to the Rappahannock, and 
to the James and to Petersburg, and to the Weldon Railroad and 
to Fort White in the ranks of the fire-tried and war-scarred Fitth 
Corps, covering its name with imperishable glory and honor as 
it did battle for the best Magna Charta the world ever saw. 

And no\y. forty vears after it stacked its arms m old 
Camp Curtin, many of its survivors, old in years and battle-scar- 
red, wherever they dwell, look back to the sixties and recall the 
glory in the deathl'ess names of South Mountain. Antietam. Fred- 
ericksburg, and Chancellorsville. while the entire Regiment repeat 
and add to its glory those other deathless names of Cold Harbor. 
Petersburg, Jerusalem Plank Road, Mine Fiasco, Weldon Rail- 



142 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

road, and sixty days and nights amid the fires of the Petersburg 
entrenchments. 

No bronze or marble shaft may ever tell the passerby of the 
devotion to and in defence of the Old Flag. The 187th has a 
more enduring monument, and as long as history shall be made 
and read, will its students ponder over the commendatory words 
of Chamberlain : "Men, you did excellently to-day ;" or those of 
Ayres, "This Regiment did its duty handsomely ;" or to those of 
Winthrope, "The 187th P. V. moved to the front in magnificent 
style;" or those of Griffin, "The conduct of the officers and men 
was all that could be desired ;" or those of Warren, "Men and 
officers performed their duty as well as any did under the cir- 
cumstances." Can men ask more than this commendation from 
officers high in rank, heroic in battle, and correct in judgment? 

The 187th asks no other monument to its patriotism, loyalty 
and service than the estimate put upon it by Chamberlain, Ayres, 
Winthrope, Griffin and Warren. Its slain rests on every field on 
which it fought, and of them we say, in the words of Colonel 
Roberts : "We cannot but feel sad when we think of those who 
have fallen — they were our friends and associates — but they 
perished gallantly in a glorious cause and have left behind them 
names as imperishable as we trust our country's fame will be. 
Their monument must be in the hearts of the people. Their re- 
quiem the blessings of the free." 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY I43 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Inauguration of Governor William A. Stone. 

Supreme Court Room, 

Harrisburg, Pa., 
January 16, 1899. 

PURSUANT to a call contained in a circular letter, issued by 
James M. Gibbs, as Chairman, and Jerome B. Starry, as 
Secretary, a large number of th^ members of the 187th 
Regiment P. V. assembled in the Supreme Court Room, at Har- 
risburg. Pa., on Monday evening, January 16, 1899. 

On motion, duly seconded, Comrade F. K. Ployer, of Com- 
pany D, was elected Chairman, and Comrade Jerome B. Starry, 
of Company I, Secretary of the meeting. The question of form- 
ing a permanent organization from the surviving members of the 
187th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, to be styled "The Sur- 
vivors' Association of the 187th Regiment, Pennsylvania Vol- 
unteers," was discussed by Comrades James M. Gibbs, of Com- 
pany C ; W. H. Shearer, of Company D ; William R. Householder, 
of Company D, and Lieutenant Colonel J. A. Ege ; but it was 
finally decided to leave the question of permanent organization 
until the following day, and at the present time to merely organ- 
ize temporarily for the purpose of participating in the inaugura- 
tion of Comrade William A. Stone, as Governor of Pennsylvania. 

Comrade George G. Lovett, Captain of Company K, moved 
that Comrade James M. Gibbs, of Company C, act as Marshal of 
the Survivors of the 187th P. V. at the Inauguration Services of 
the Governor-elect, William A. Stone, with power to appoint his 
own Aids. Motion duly seconded and carried. 

Comrade James M. Gibbs moved that a committee of five 
be appointed by the Chairman to report at 3 o'clock on the after- 
noon of the seventeenth, a plan of permanent organization, and 
that the temporary officers of this meeting be additional members 



144 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

of the committee. The motion was seconded and unanimously 
agreed to, whereupon the Chair appointed Colonel J. A. Ege as 
Chairman of the committee, and Captain George G. Lovett, C. P. 
Harder, Wilmot Ayres and H. C. Shearer, who, with Chairman 
Gibbs and Secretary Starry, constituted the committee. 

Chairman Ege announced that the committee would meet at 
2.30 on the seventeenth, for the purpose of drafting Constitution 
and By-Laws. 

The question of regimental organization was further dis- 
cussed by Comrades John H. Wallace, Company C ; Wilmot 
Ayres, Company B ; Thomas P. Morgan, Company C, and Cap- 
tain George G. Lovett, Company K. 

Upon motion, duly seconded, the Chair was authorized to 
appoint a committee to receive and escort the incoming comrades 
to the headquarters of the Regiment at the Supreme Court room, 
whereupon the Chair appointed Comrades Samuel Bricker, of 
Company D ; John W. Everhart, Company F ; Thomas B. Mc- 
Cord, Company H ; Wilmot Ayres, Company B ; William D. Rit- 
ner, and Robert M. McKeehan, of Company D, and John H. 
Wallace, of Company C. The meeting then adjourned to meet 
at 3 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. 

The Comrades assembled at 9 o'clock a. m. on the seven- 
teenth, to proceed to the Executive Mansion to escort Comrade 
William A. Stone, Governor-elect, to the place of Inauguration. 
There being some misunderstanding in regard to music, the 
band promised by the Inaugural Committee did not make its 
appearance. A drum was secured and Comrade A. G. Kyle, of 
Company D, a member of the Regimental Drum Corps, beat 
the time. The Comrades marched in command of Comrade 
James M. Gibbs, of Company C, to Third street, to Market street, 
to Front street, to the Executive Mansion, and from there es- 
corted Comrade William A. Stone to the Inaugural Stand, in 
front of the Capitol and there formed a hollow square and sur- 
rounded him during the Inaugural Ceremony, after which the 
Association disbanded to meet at 3 o'clock in the Supreme Court 
Room. 



pennsylvania volunteer infantry i45 

Supreme Court Room, 

Harrisburg, Pa., 
January 17, 1899. 

Subsequent to adjournment on January i6th, the Survivors 
of the 187th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, met at 3 o'clock 
this afternoon in the Supreme Court Room for the purpose of 
forming a permanent organization, Comrade F. K. Ployer, of 
Company D, presiding. 

On motion, duly seconded, it was unanimously agreed that 
Colonel J. A. Ege act as Chairman of the meeting temporarily. 

Colonel Ege: "Comrades, I thank you for the honor con- 
ferred upon me, and will proceed to business promptly. Will 
Comrade Rev. Wilson Smith, of Company D, invoke the divine 
blessing upon this meeting?" 

Comrade Smith : "O God, our Heavenly Father, we thank 
thee that thou hast permitted us to assemble together as Sur- 
vivors of the 187th Regiment, and we thank thee for the privilege 
of mingling our voices in remembrance of the past. We ask thee, 
our Heavenly Father, that thou will grant to look upon us as we 
are gathered here this afternoon and to bless us. May the Spirit 
lead and guide in the way of truth and light. We thank thee, 
our Heavenly Father, for what our eyes have seen this day ; 
that one of our fellow Comrades has been inaugurated as the 
Governor of the State of Pennsylvania. We thank thee that thou 
hast seen fit that from our ranks should be chosen one to sit in the 
chair of the Governor of the great State of Pennsylvania, and 
we ask that thou wilt bless him in his administration and in his 
bearing among the people. Our hearts were touched as he de- 
delivered his inaugural address and we pray that thou wilt give 
him ability and courage to carry out his convictions. Bless our 
Colonel, who led us safely through the battles of the late war. 
When we look back through the years that are past and remember 
the Comrades that fell upon the battlefield and shed their life- 
blood in defense of our glorious country, O God. we feel sad in 
our hearts. We feel a deep mourning for those loyal and true 
men who fell ; and we trust this afternoon, our Hcavenlv Father. 



146 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

that they are marching in the ranks of the heavenly army over the 
fields of glory. O God bless every Comrade here to-day and 
help us in our meeting that it may be a benefit and keep intact 
the social spirit among us ; and O God, may we still have a love 
for one another, and may we bear each other up in the arms of 
prayer, and may we be ready to help our fellow Comrades in 
every good thing that we can do. Our Father, we pray thee to 
bless our great Government. Do thou bless President McKinley 
in his administration. We pray, O Father, that we may see 
peace and prosperity in our land; may we enjoy the rich bless- 
ings of good citizenship and when our warfare is o'er and life is 
at an end, as we have met here together this afternoon in this As- 
sociation, may we meet in heaven, where we shall be with thee for- 
ever, and thine shall be the honor, and the power, and the glory. 
Amen." 

Chairman Ege : "At yesterday's meeting a committee of 
seven was appointed to draft a Constitution looking towards the 
permanent organization of a Regimental Association for the 
187th Regiment, and I would ask that the Secretary read the Con- 
stitution as drafted by the committee." 

The Secretary then read the following report of the commit- 
tee : 

The committee appointed for the purpose submit the follow- 
ing By-Laws for the government of the Association, which was 
unanimously adopted : 

Section I. The name of this organization shall be "The Sur- 
vivors' Association of the 187th Regiment, Pennsylvania Vol- 
unteers." 

Section II. The officers of. this Association shall consist of 
a President, Secretary, Treasurer, Chaplain, Historian and an 
Executive Committee, consisting of five members, and the sur- 
viving members of the 187th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. 
The President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer, Chap- 
lain and Historian, shall be members ex-officio of the Executive 
Committee. 

Section III. All members of the 187th Regiment, Pennsyl- 
vania Volunteers, are entitled to membership in this Association. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY I47 

Section IV. Admission fee shall be one dollar, and the an- 
nual dues twenty-five cents. 

Section V. The President is authorized to call a special 
meeting of the Regimental Association, by a petition in writing, 
signed by a majority of the Executive Committee. A majority of 
the Executive Committee to constitute a quorum. 

Section VI. Fifteen members of the Regimental x\ssocia- 
tion shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at 
any annual or special meeting. 

Section VII. The organization shall meet in session at least 
once a year at such time and place as designated at the prior meet- 
ing of the Association, or at the call of the President. 

The above By-Laws were adopted by the Association. 

The following officers were then elected : President, Hon. 
William A. Stone, Company A ; Vice President, James M. Gibbs, 
Company C ; Secretary, Jerome B. Starry, Company I ; Treasurer, 
Frederick K. Ployer, Company D ; Chaplain, Rev. Wilson Smith, 
Company D ; Historian, Samuel C. Ilgenfritz, Company B ; Ex- 
ecutive Committee, Captain William Young, Company C ; Wil- 
liam R. Householder, Company D ; L. C. Kresher, Company E ; 
George W. Kennedy, Hospital Steward; Samuel C. Ilgenfritz, 
Company B. 

The newly elected officers were then installed and in the 
absence of the President, Comrade W'illiam A. Stone, the Vice 
President, Comrade James M. Gibbs, took the chair and de- 
livered the following address : 

"Comrades, this is an occasion that I've been working for, 
and bending every effort towards, for the last fifteen years. No- 
body can realize how much good it has done me to look into the 
faces of so many members of the 187th Regiment to-day. Of 
course your faces are not what they were thirty years ago. Some 
of you have bright spots on the top of your heads, and some of 
you have white heads. Time has dealt harshly with many of us. 
You remember, Comrades, in 1864, on a bright May morning, we 
marched dovVn Ridge avenue to North street, to Third, to 
Market, and out Market street across the old Camel Back Bridge 
to Bridgeport, where we were loaded into box cars and started 



148 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMKNT 

for the front by the way of Baltimore and Washington. After 
remaining in Washington for a short time we marched across the 
Potomac, to ArHngton, where we camped for a few days, when 
we again took up the march towards Alexandria, where we were 
loaded on transports and sailed down the Potomac, to the Chesa- 
peake Bay, then up the Rapahannock river to Port Royal, where 
we remained for a few days when we took up the march to Cold 
Harbor. 

"You all remember the incidents of that march. You re- 
member well the arrival at Cold Harbor, and our assignment to 
the First Brigade, First Division, of the Fifth Corps. You all 
remember the experience we had in the Chickahominy Swamps. 
You remember the crossing of the James River, and the terrible 
march from there to Petersburg, on the afternoon of the sixteenth 
day of June, arriving there late that night, and resting on the 
seventeenth. You remember. Comrades, starting out on the 
morning of the eighteenth, and going over the field on which the 
Ninth Corps had fought the day before. You remember crossing 
the railroad and resting in the ravine until some time late in the 
afternoon, when the bugle sounded the advance. That bugle 
sounded the death knell of many of our brave Comrades. I 
think at times that I can still hear its sound. You remember 
well the sad experience in the trenches around Petersburg, on the 
picket line, or working in the trenches for sixty long days. You 
remember the move to the Weldon Railroad, and the three days 
hard fighting there. Comrades, it makes me feel sad to think of 
these incidents ; to think of the Comrades whose bones are still 
lying in the soil of Virginia. Comrades, we had some very 
pleasant times during our term of service ; but we have the satis- 
faction of knowing that the Regiment did its whole duty in what- 
ever position it was placed. 

"After being relieved from duty at the Weldon Railroad, we 
were taken to Philadelphia, and did duty there. Far better would 
it have been for the Regiment had we been kept at the front and 
remained with the Army of the Potomac. After being dis- 
charged, the members of the Regiment returned to the routine 
of civil life. Some went back to their farms; some to the shops 



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and mills, and mines; some returned to the schools and took up 
the books they lay down when they left home to enlist. We 
find the members of the Regiment scattered all over this land of 
ours. They live in nearly every State of this Union and are 
engaged in nearly all the trades and professions. Some are bank- 
ers, some are lawyers, doctors and ministers of the gospel. We 
have one member of the Regiment who enlisted as a private sol- 
dier, was promoted to Corporal, to Sergeant, and to Second Lieu- 
tenant. When he was discharged he returned to school, and after 
taking a course in one of our State Normal Schools, studied 
law and was admitted to practice. He moved to one of the cities 
of the western part of the State, and soon became an active mem- 
ber of the profession in that city. He was appointed to the high 
position of U. S. District Attorney for the Western District of the 
State. He was afterward elected to the Congress of the United 
States, and was re-elected for several terms ; and when in Con- 
gress he was always found working in the interest of the old 
soldier, and was one of the best known men in Congress. 

"The people of this Commonwealth selected him last Fall to 
be the Governor of the State, and we are here to-day to see Wil- 
liam A. Stone, of Company A, of the 187th Regiment, Pennsyl- 
vania Volunteers, inaugurated Governor of this grand old State. 

"Comrades, permit me to give you a brief outline of the work 
we have been doing to bring about this reunion of the 187th Regi- 
ment. After the election of Comrade Stone, some of the mem- 
bers of the Regiment thought that it would be the proper thing 
for him to be surrounded by the members of the Regiment when 
he took upon himself the oath of his high office. As the Gov- 
ernors of Pennsylvania for many years — Geary, Hoyt, Hartranft 
and Beaver, had all been surrounded by the members of their Regi- 
mental Association when they were inaugurated, I looked about 
Harrisburg and found three members of the 187th Regiment liv- 
ing in the city, Comrades Jerome B. Starry and A. M. Landis, of 
Company I, and myself. We met and formed a society, and sent 
out to all the members of the Regiment whose address we knew, a 
circular letter. As a result, we have this splendid gathering here 
to-day. We have assembled here to-day to do honor to a man 
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154 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

who carried a gun ; a man who has earned the promotion that 
he has obtained. Now, Comrades, as we have organized our As- 
sociation, let us try to get a Httle closer together in the future 
than we have done in the past. It has been thirty-four years since 
so many of us have been together, so let us meet one another and 
shake a friendly hand and look into one another's faces, as many 
of us have done to-day and yesterday, and let us help one another 
whenever we possibly can. 

''I wish that the members of the Association who know of 
the residence of any other members of the Regiment would no- 
tify the Secretary and give him their names and address. Fully 
one-third, if not one-half, of our old Comrades have answered the 
last roll call ; but let us strive to make our Association a suc- 
cess, and when we come together again let there be double the 
number that are here to-day. 

"Comrades, with these few remarks I thank you for the 
honor that you have conferred upon me, for I deem it an honor to 
be the Vice President of this Association." 

The Vice President then stated that the committee had se- 
cured a banner for the use of the Association, and described it as 
follows : Size, 24 by 36 inches. The front was of blue silk, and 
engraved as follows in gilt letters : Veteran Association, 187th 
Regiment, P. V. I. In the center a red Maltese Cross, the badge 
of the Fifth Army Corps. The reverse side of white silk, and 
lettered as follows : Organized, March, 1864. Discharged, Au- 
gust 3, 1865. Petersburg, Va., June i8th, 20th and 21st; Weldon 
Railroad, August 18, 19, 20 and 21, 1864. It was moved that the 
Association accept and adopt the banner. Motion was duly 
seconded and carried. 

Comrade Lovett : "Mr. Chairman, what time do we attend 
the reception this evening? I move you, sir, that when we ad- 
journ, we adjourn to meet here at 7 o'clock this evening, to 
attend the reception of the Governor under the ]Marshalship of 
the Vice President." Motion carried. 

Comrade Mager : "There is one thing that I would like to 
say, and I would like the Comrades to bear in mind, and that is 
that the Philadelphia delegation of the 187th Regiment wishes 



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to meet you in Philadelphia and show you our hospitality on 
the occasion of the annual encampment of the G. A. R. in 
1899. We want to see you and we want you to call 
and see us when in Philadelphia." 

It was then moved, and duly seconded, that when we finally 
adjourned that we adjourn to meet in the city of Philadelphia 
during the week of the Annual Encampment of the G. A. R. in 
1899. Motion carried. 

Comrade Ayres : "Mr. Chairman, I would like to say in 
response to the Comrade from Philadelphia who has just extend- 
ed such a welcome invitation, that I personally have only one thing 
now to live for and that is to come to Philadelphia, and if my 
health is good, I want to meet all our Comrades in Philadelphia." 

Comrade Kennedy : "I was going to make a suggestion in 
regard to the matter of a Ladies' Auxiliary, and that is, that a com- 
mittee of three be appointed to take this matter up and report at 
the meeting in Philadelphia." A motion was then made that a com- 
mittee of three be appointed to take into consideration the ques- 
tion of a Ladies' Auxiliary. Motion duly seconded and adopted. 

The Vice President then appointed the following Comrades 
as that committee : C. P. Harder, Company C ; W. R. House- 
holder, Company D, and Phil. S. Mager, Company E. 

Comrade Lovett : "Mr. Chairman, permit me to introduce 
to the Association Comrade Harder, of Company C, better known 
as "Little Pete, the Drummer Boy," the youngest soldier of the 
Rebellion." 

Comrade Harder : "Mr. Chairman and Comrades, I feel 
very much gratified in meeting with you here this afternoon, and 
I really do not intend to make a speech. I merely wish to ex- 
press my appreciation at being here after so many years have 
passed since we marched and bivouaced together. My gratifica- 
tion is such that I am not able to express in words. I thank you 
for this pleasure." 

Comrade Wilson Smith : "Mr. Chairman and Comrades, I 
feel very much exalted over this meeting. I felt a great deal af- 
fected when I bid my wife good-bye to come to Harrisburg, and 
I feel affected, but in a spirit of gladness this day in meeting with 



156 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

the Comrades of the 187th Regiment. Many a time in quiet> 
hours at home I have thought, and in my thoughts I have gone 
over the ground that we traveled and the hardships that we en- 
dured together when we drank out of the same canteen. 

"I have often thought about that and those other occasions. 
On one occasion I thought particularly of Comrade Ritner. I re- 
member when we were right in the front at Petersburg, and we 
had to keep our heads down, and he arose one morning, and as 
he arose he was stretching himself when the enemy fired and 
struck him in the arm with a bullet, and he grabbed his arm and 
said one of those little words that sometimes we utter, and he 
remarked that if he had that fellow he would riddle him from 
top to bottom. Many a time I have thought. And what pleased 
me most to-day is that when I came into this room and saw my 
Comrades and looked into their faces, I made the remark to my- 
self as I made to citizens on the street, that I am proud of the 
men of the 187th Regiment. We have bright men who have 
conducted themselves in such a manner that this day we can 
be proud of them. I will never forget the time when I carried a 
gun, and many a time I think about Captain Ege. And one time 
he made me ride a horse about twelve feet high, and you know 
it was only about an inch wide. I had to sit on there for two 
hours, and I had no stirrups. I remember a Comrade who had 
been on nearly all day except at meal time. He took one of the 
shelter tents and used that for a saddle. But I want to say here 
to-day that after I came home from the army I settled myself 
down in life. I was what we called a private in the front rank 
when I was in the army, but after I came home I reformed, and 
for 23 years I have been in the ministry, and I have come out of 
the front rank and I am an officer of our great Ruler who rules 
over us, and I say that I am glad to-day for the reformation. 
And I have talked with a great many of my Comrades here and 
feel proud that I can stand by their side fighting the great warfare 
of sin. And, Comrades, there is another thought that comes 
to my mind. I think of my dead Comrades. There is hardly a 
day passes by but that I think of DuBois. He was in the front; 
rank while I was in the rear rank. As we marched along he used 



PUNNSYIvVANlA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 157 

to say to the rest of us that the first battle that we got into he 
was going to be nipped, and sure enough he was the first man 
stricken down in our Regiment. 

"When we laid down upon the top of the hill and scratched 
up a little breastwork, when that shell came along and struck Du- 
Bois. There were many good boys that were struck at the same 
time and place. What I want to say here now is that some of 
us are getting old. Every one of us is advancing in years. Some 
of us, perhaps, are looking forward to meet in Philadelphia, but 
some of us who are here to-day will not live to meet in Phila- 
delphia. Some of us may drop out of this Association. I think 
about that and I trust. Comrades, that our aim will be Godly and 
heavenly ; that we may meet there. I want to meet my Comrades 
on the fields of glory. I want to meet those whose blood stained 
the Southern soil. I want to meet them in glory and I hope 
God's blessing may accompany every Comrade of the 187th Regi- 
ment." 

Comrade iLovett being called, then said: "Mr. Chairman and 
Comrades, I was one who fell early in the day and was compelled 
to leave shortly on account of the sharpshooter's bullet taking me 
in the arm. I am really glad to meet you here to-day, and prob- 
ably under other circumstances I would not have been here. It 
is hard to say where our Regiment came from originally. We 
did not come from any distinctive locality. The Company to 
which I was attached came from various places; some from 
Tioga, Bradford, Philadelphia and some other places ; and a few, 
while I was Lieutenant of Company C, came from Danville. 
But our Regiment was a sturdy Regiment and full of life and 
fire and when we took the field finally we acted the part of soldiers 
and did our duty well." 

Comrade Waldron, of Company C : "Comrades, I am very 
much pleased to meet my old Comrades to-day. Some of you I 
have not met since that terrible day, June 18, 1864, the day that I 
lost my good right arm ; but I hope, Comrades, that we may meet 
in Philadelphia in September next, and that we may see many 
faces that are not here to-day. Comrades, you have been talk- 
ing about a Ladies* Auxiliary. Start one by all means, as we 



158 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

cannot do much good without their aid. I think a great deal of 
the ladies and I will tell you why, Comrades. Many of you re- 
member my being wounded on the 18th of June. I was taken 
to the hospital where my arm was taken oflf. I was then taken 
to the hospital at City Point, where I was left for two days with- 
out any care. I was dirty ; my clothes were covered with mud and 
blood, just as I was when carried from the field. Gangrene had 
shown itself in my arm and I was just about ready to die, when 
a young lady came into the tent and when she saw the condi- 
tion that I was in, tears came into her eyes and she asked me 
to what Regiment I belonged to. I said the 187th. She said, 
'Is not this a Philadelphia Regiment?' I said, 'partly so.' Then 
she said, 'Well no Pennsylvania boy shall suffer as you are suf- 
fering if I can prevent it.' She started off for the surgeon and 
the nurse. I was bathed, clean clothing put on, my wound was 
dressed, my bed was changed, and from that time I began to 
get well and since that time I have a warm place in my heart 
for the ladies." 

Comrade Samuel C. Ilgenfritz, of Company B, was then in- 
troduced and spoke as follows : 

"My Comrades, it is late and my speech will be short and 
sweet. Apart from my own Company I know but few ; neverthe- 
less by virtue of our identification with the 187th Regiment, 
I know every one of you whether I can call you by name or not. 
You have made me your Historian. Why, I cannot say. All 
that I have done along that line was the publication of an eight- 
column sketch of the Regiment in the York Daily, which was 
simply my own observations upon its inception, service and immo- 
lation, for the defense of the flag. Reminiscences of the camp, 
the march, the picket, and the battle are pleasant 34 years after 
the conflict in which we stood shoulder to shoulder battling for 
our country. I am sure that we have to-day something better 
and greater challenging our attention and thought. That Com- 
rade to my right hit the nail square on the head when he said 
we made history. Yes, this gallant old 187th Regiment, as an 
integral part of the Army of the Potomac, made history. Now, 
it does not take three or five or ten years to do this. The actual 



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fighting service of the Regiment only spanned from Petersburg 
to the Weldon Railroad, but it came into service in an hour when 
the result was trembling in the balance ; at a time when hours and 
days and months made history with wonderful rapidity in their 
sweep down the last thirty-four years. As it stood, superbly 
stood, receiving its baptism of blood before Petersburg, June 18, 
1864, losing 200 of its intrepid sons, more than all the other Regi- 
ments of the Brigade combined, and more than any Regiment in 
the Fifth Corps, I do not know but this single heroic act may 
have been the boys' push that moved the forces of Union along 
the line of the Weldon Railroad, to Five Forks and the salvation 
of the Union at Appomatox, the 187th Regiment contended for 
a great and far-reaching principle. What is a principle? A 
truth received, believed and fixed in the mind from which there 
flows out a corresponding course of action. When this Regi- 
ment marched to the defense of the imperiled interest of its 
country, it received and wrote upon its colors, a great truth, 
namely, the principle of national sovereignty, /. e., This is a na- 
tion, not a compact, a rope of sand, that may be snapped asunder 
by the mere whim of any one ; nor set of States, but a nation pos- 
sessing the power to defend, preserve and perpetuate its life. 
And its organization, and camping, and marching, and picketing, 
and fighting, was the course of action which flowed out of its re- 
ception of the truth of national sovereignty, and that made it give 
the health, and limb, and life, of its gallant boys in defense of the 
best Magna Charta the world ever saw, and characterized by De 
Aubigne, as the standing miracle of history, and which Buckley 
says should be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned 
on the porch of every royal palace. This sheet anchor of our 
liberties has gone beyond the environments of our civil strife ; 
yes, the actors in the conflict of the sixties must pass away, but 
this will go out and onward until civil, political, and religious 
liberty shall girdle the nations as the undisputed right of all 
peoples. And here this grand old Pennsylvania Regiment made 
history, that has, and will continue to have a tremendous sweep 
down the ages for the good of mankind, while the luster of an 



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imperishable glory shall abide with the 187th, its posterity, and 
Pennsylvania forever. 

"Led by the dauntless Chamberlain, the gallant Grififin, the 
superb Warren, and the cultured Meade, to the defense of the 
national sovereignty, we need not blush to say that we belonged 
to the 187th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. Contending 
for this great basic principle of the Government, it makes a vast 
difference as to whether we fought for or against 'Old Glory.' 
We dare not speculate as to who was right in the conflict. The 
North defended a de facto Government and it was eternally right. 
The South fought for a de jure Government, which they could 
not make a fact, and this was a rebellion, and those who engaged 
therein were Rebels, and hence they were eternally wrong, and 
being wrong, the sun of the heresy of State sovereignty set in 
blood at Appomatox forever. I would like to say much more, 
but that clock bids me cease. My Comrades, farewell, and may 
God be with you till we meet again. Tell the story of your cares, 
toils, and hardships, sacrifices for the land and flag you loved and 
served, but above all cherish this thought, namely, that the 187th 
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, made history on whose 
pages will be read the principles for which we fought by millions 
yet unborn ; truths that shall live and bless the world when we 
are sleeping in patriots' graves." 

Remarks were made by several other Comrades, but the 
stenographer having been called away, we were not able to give 
them. The meeting was then adjourned to meet in Philadelphia 
during the session of the National Encampment, in September 
next. 

At 7 o'clock p. m., the Comrades assembled in the Supreme 
Court Room and marched in a body, in command of James M. 
Gibbs, to the Executive Mansion, and paid their respects to the 
new Governor, Comrade William A. Stone, of Company A, 187th 
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. 

The following Comrades were present at the inauguration 
of Comrade William A. Stone, as Governor of Pennsylvania : 

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph A. Ege, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Hospital Steward George W. Kennedy, Pottsville, Pa. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY l6l 

Company A. 

Henry Hippie, Middletown, Pa. 
Hugh McGrogan, Philadelphia, Pa. 
George B. Cunningham, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Hon. H. M. Foot, Washington, D. C. 

Company B. 

Wilmot Ayres, M. D., Harrisburg, Pa. 

John J. Hess, Harrisburg, Pa. 

Henry Gable, York, Pa. 

Lieutenant Samuel C. Ilgen fritz, York, Pa. 

Warrington Keesey, Etters, York county, Pa. 

George K. Grove, New Cumberland, Pa. 

W. H. Nauss, New Cumberland, Pa. 

Company C. 

Captain William Young, Washington, Pa. 
Nelson B. Case, Havredegrace, Md. 
James M. Gibbs, Steelton, Pa. 
Arthur F. Alward, Bellwood, Pa. 
Thomas P. Morgan, Tyrone, Pa. 
Charles P. Harder, Danville, Pa. 
John E. Roberts, Danville, Pa. 
John Sechler, Danville, Pa. 
Joseph L. Frame, Danville, Pa. 
George W. Vangilder, Treverton, Pa. 
John H. Wallace. Philadelphia, Pa. 
John Waldron, Muncy, Pa. 
James B. Forrest, Lewisburg, Pa. 

Company D. 

Robert McKeehan, Mount Rock. Pa. 
Henry C. Shearer. New Bloomfield. Pa. 
Michael Shanefelzer. Landisburg. Pa. 
Samuel Bricker, Washington, D. C. 



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William R. Householder, Washington, D. C. 
F. K. Ployer, Mechanicsburg, Pa. 
William D. Ritner, Washington, D. C. 
William Green, Big Springs, Pa. 
Wilson S. Smith, Harrisburg, Pa. 
F. M. Stoake, Hoguestown, Pa. 
William O. Trego, Milton, Pa. 
A. G. Kyle, Newville, Pa. 
Jonathan E. Feeree, Newville, Pa. 
William H. W. Umholtz, Landisburg, Pa. 
William Morrison, Landisburg, Pa. 
John M. Faughender, Harrisburg, Pa. 

Company E. 

Lieutenant Edward Steel, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Phil. S. Mager, Philadelphia, Pa. 
L. C. Krisher, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Edward Farmer, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Company F. 

John W. Everhart, Steelton, Pa. 
Eugene Lenhart, Berwick, Pa. 
WilHam C. Purcell, Williamsport, Pa. 

Company H. 

Thomas B. McCord, Harrisburg, Pa. 
Samuel F, Ireley, Middletown, Pa. 
Benjamin Hippie, Harrisburg, Pa. 
John O. ColHer, Loysville, Pa. 

Company L 

Jerome B. Starry, Harrisburg, Pa. 
Lieutenant W. E. Zinn, Lemoyne, Pa. 
D. H. McLaughlin, Newville, Pa. 
Jacob Kohler, Bowmansdale, Pa. 



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Company K. 

Captain George G. Lovett, Danville, Pa. 
B. F. Myers, Mountain Dale, Pa. 
Adam Garman, Mountain Dale, Pa. 
Z. T. Baltzer, Harrisburg, Pa. 
John W. Minnich, Dillsville, Pa. 
Cornelius Rhoades, Dillsville, Pa. 



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CHAPTER XVII. 



Second Annual Meeting of the Survivors' Association, 

187TH Regiment, P. V., Held at Gettysburg, Pa., 

June 5, 1900. 

Hon. William A. Stone, Governor of Pennsylvania, and President 
of the Survivors' Association, 187th Regiment, P. V. I. 

MR CHx\IRMAN and Comrades : I know that you do not 
want me to make a speech. I am deeply interested in all 
that has taken place this afternoon ; interested in learn- 
ing the whereabouts of the members of our old Regiment, and 
what surprises me more than anything else is the fact that thirty- 
five years after the close of the war there are 400 men still living 
who are members of the 187th Regiment. It only establishes 
what Department Commander Morrison said to me, that, alter 
all that mav be said about the soldiers of the war, they were the 
hardiest, strongest and toughest men in the country, else they 
would not have survived as they do. Of course, they were 
voung men, our Regiment particularly so, because they were 
organized late in the war. My recollection is that in my Com- 
pany there were a great many men who were not twenty years 
of age. I think the majority of them were hardly twenty years 
of age. I was not eighteen, and I was not the youngest by a 
good deal. The war had been going on, you know, for three 
or four years, when this Regiment was raised. They took what 
was left and in my Company there were no old men ; not many at 
least. I remember one old man in my Company, George B. Mc- 
Gonigle, his name was, and how I can remember that name is a 
mvstery to me, for it is a very awkward name, but because of 
the fact that he was an old crank. He was always fussing with 
medicines and things, always thought he had Brighfs disease, 
trouble in his back, and he was his own doctor. He was warm- 
ing up different chemical ingredients, and used to use the Com- 



l66 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

pany fire. Some of the boys got provoked with it and got a can- 
teen half full of powder, and laid a train, and when the old man 
got down on his knees, he was making this or that, suddenly it 
went off, and he went over. (Laughter) I saw that; in fact I 
was expecting it, and I presume that is why I can remember his 
name. 

"I don't know what has become of him. (A Comrade: He 
is dead.) What has become of Curley? (A Comrade: He is 
dead.) Well, if I was compelled to write a history of the 187th 
Regiment, I could not make much of a history. My early ac- 
quaintance with it began when it was the First BattaHon during 
1863. Some of you went on duty in that ; Ramsey was the Lieu- 
tenant Colonel. It was an organization enlisted for six months to 
turn the Rebels out of Pennsylvania. It was the Regiment that 
prevented the overrunning of Pennsylvania. I came down with 
three or four other boys to join that Battalion, and did join it, as 
we understood, until we were started on the road home. Some 
misunderstanding between the War Department and ourselves re- 
sulted in our being sent home, and then when its term of service 
expired it re-enlisted and became the 187th Regiment, I joined 
again. As you will observe, there are quite a number of names 
from Wellsboro, Tioga county, where I lived at that time, and we 
were Company A, commanded by Captain George W. Merrick, 
and as you all remember, the Regiment was organized in Camp 
Curtin. I don't remember just when we gathered there in Camp 
Curtin, It must have been early in April, if my recollection 
serves me right. Which was old 'Pop' Thomas' Company? 
(A Comrade: Company E, of Philadelphia.) There was a 
Company from Scranton. (A Comrade: That was Company 
G.) I remember them very well, and we had a pen there that 
was called the 'bull pen.' I remember that at Camp Curtin. We 
had a very good Company when we started in, but there were 
other Companies that were overflowing and they sent some men 
into our organization. I remember 'Bill Chestnut' from Com- 
pany D. I remember that there was a long high board fence 
and 'Bill Chestnut' was inside of the fence, and I was on the 
outside, and there was a lady on the outside that was selling pies, 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 167 

custard pies, almost as large as the crown of my hat, at twenty- 
five cents each. There was a little place with a gtiard stretched 
across, and there was 'Bill Chestnut' on the other side, and he 
was looking with great earnestness on those pies ; and he said to 
me, 'How many has she got?' I didn't know, and he said, 'Pile 
them up and count them.' There were six of them, and I saw 
'Bill Chestnut' reach under the guard and take those six pies, and 
then the woman turned round and accused me of being an ac- 
complice, which was not true. I had no intention of doing such 
a thing, but in fact it looked like it, and I was brought up before 
the Captain of the Company, together with William Chestnut. 
She said that I piled up the pies on the outside and 'Bill Chestnut' 
took them as I passed them over, and the Captain ordered us to 
pay for the pies. (Laughter.) We only had twenty-five cents 
jointly, but we managed to borrow some money and got through 
with it. 

"For the time that this Regiment was in the service, it lost, 
proportionately, as many killed in action as any other Regiment 
in the service. Of course, it is not like the Minnesota Regiment, 
where a larger percentage was killed than any Regiment, but the 
Regiment lost heavily and maintained its credit as a Regiment. 
They stood up under fire and performed their duty, and suffered 
their quota of men who were killed, wounded and captured. I 
have often since the war heard other soldiers boast of their fight- 
ing, and I have quietly gone over the record of this Regiment, 
and I have never found anything in its history to make me regret 
that I joined this Regiment. Of course, I wasn't permitted to 
say anything about my military experiences at home, because I 
had two older brothers in the 'Bucktail Regiment,' and they would 
never admit that I was in the army at all. They knew it all from 
the beginning. One was in a Rebel prison. The other was 
wounded in two or three battles, and they would never admit 
there was any other Regiment in the service except the 'Buck- 
tails,' and when I got home and felt like boasting of my ex- 
periences they always shut me up promptly ; but as a matter of 
fact there is nothing in the history of this Regiment that needs 
give any one regret. It was a good Regiment, performed its 



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duty on all occasions, and stood under fire with the same courage 
that all of the Regiments of the Union army exhibited. Went 
down to the front, you know, some time in May. We went to 
Washington. I remember getting out at Arlington and staying 
there in little bits of tents that were never intended for men of my 
height. They were, I think, called dog tents. They were well 
named, about large enough for an ordinary dog. I wasn't with 
the Regiment at Fort Hell at all, and was glad of it at the time. 
Had I been with the Regiment and gone through that terrible 
ordeal, I would have been glad of it, but taking it all in all, I am 
not sorry I was not along. (Laughter.) I was sick at the time, 
but I was with the Regiment shortly afterwards. I remember 
it very well. We were a party of some or ten members of the 
Regiment, being sent from Camp Distribution, near Washing- 
ton. There was a big, muddy well that supplied the water at 
the camp. I remember the discovery was made there one morn- 
ing that I shall not forget. Some man had fallen in about two 
weeks before ; none of us knew it. Camp Distribution was a 
place we were all glad to get away from. We went down to 
Alexandria and there joined a party and went on to Acquia 
creek and marched up to the front. There was a man with us, 
who applied for a pension afterwards, he said that the Regiment 
was down in such a direction; he insisted on it, and we went on 
down there, and by and by a shell came over and lit pretty near 
me and went off, and he was then convinced that the Regiment 
was not in that direction, and we started in some other direction. 
We found it after a while, and went on and through the ordinary 
routine camp life. I remember the Colonel very well ; Ramsey 
was with us then. He had a black horse. I always thought that 
was a pretty good horse. I never thought so much about the 
Colonel, but I guess he was a good Colonel. I remember when 
we were ordered to move that camp towards the Weldon Rail- 
road. We went on at a pretty lively pace and found the Weldon 
Railroad at a place called the Yellow House. And we began to 
throw up earthworks, and I can see General Warren yet pointing 
how these fortifications were to be constructed, and that night a 
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first station on picket, and it rained, and just about the time I 
started we were all ordered out under arms, and the word was 
that if we were found sleeping on our posts we would be shot. 
Our picket squad was formed and we went down. I don't 
know whether any one here was on that picket or not. Probably 
it is just as well for my story that there is no one here that was 
on that detail. I was then a Corporal or a Sergeant, I do not 
know which. Anyhow I was put in charge of three or four posts, 
told to visit them every hour and if anybody was sleeping, to 
report them for court-martial. It began to rain harder. I never 
had such a contract in my life before to keep awake, and it was a 
very bad night, and I had been told about men who had been 
found at picket posts with their throats cut, and there was a man 
by the name of Wilcox, one called Jackson, one Saxbury, and 
so on. 

In front of the post was a vidette post. I undertook in good 
faith to visit one post and in coming back lost my way and got 
down in front, and I didn't know where I was, but I knew the 
vidette wasn't very far from me, and his name was Nelson Stark- 
weather, and I began to call his name in a loud whisper, and he 
was about three feet from me. I didn't visit any more posts 
that night, but these men all went to sleep. I told them they 
would all be shot, and they told me, '*to hell with it." I stood 
over them with my back against a tree and listened to their 
snoring, and I thought the Rebels would hear them snoring and 
creep up and cut their throats, and sometimes I wished they 
would. (Laughter.) 

By and by I thought that I could see through the bushes 
what appeared to be a pair of eyes coming closer and closer and 
watching me with fearful certainty. I made up my mind that 
was a Rebel. I looked for other eyes. I kicked Wilson with my 
foot. He growled and snored worse than ever. I stood that 
thing for over an hour. There were no Rebels there, and there 
was nobody hurt except myself, and I was scared nearly to 
death. We stayed there all night. The Rebels made a demon- 
stration in front of our line. We had a line running out at an 
angle from our main line. The Rebels undertook to get in behind 



174 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

and capture us, and while they were doing that we opened fire on 
them from the angle line and from the main line combined, and 
there were very few left of them when we got through. That 
was a very serious engagement while it lasted. I had been out 
with my ten truants that morning to get a load of shingles. We 
found an old house with these shingles on it and we got two poles 
and made a sort of a stretcher and laid the shingles across it, 
and started for camp with a pretty good load, but when we were 
about half way the Rebels began to fire, and we hadn't any 
shingles when we got into camp. You remember after this firing 
took place our Regiment moved ofif to the right, and we w^ent at 
a double quick for some distance, and while we \yere running a 
shell came along and went into Company D and killed three or 
four men. That shell came close to me you know, because I w^as 
the first man in the first file of my Company. I was the tallest 
man in the Company and never allowed any one to take my 
place either. That shell came along within a few feet of me, and 
the noise or wind, or whatever it was, knocked our whole file 
down, but the shell entered Company D behind us and killed 
three or four men. The Regiment went over an old brush fence 
or slashing, and moved down through the underbrush and finally 
struck the earthwork that had been thrown up by the reserves, 
and we took our place behind them, and it rained all that night, 
and two or three of our Company were wounded that night shovel- 
ling dirt. I remember that was where we called for volunteers 
to go out and shovel dirt. I volunteered, but I saw a big tree out 
in front of me and by getting this side of the tree I was compara- 
tively safe, and I volunteered. A number of them volunteered 
who didn't have a tree, but I could not see any harm in getting 
behind the tree, especially when they were shooting in front. 
(Laughter.) We lay there all night and in the morning we moved 
back into camp and stayed there until we went back to Philadel- 
phia. I always thought it was a mistake in the Government 
sending us back to Philadelphia. There was sentiment, of course, 
on the part of some of our friends at home to want us to come 
back to the State, but I don't recall any such manifestation in the 
Regiment. I was surprised some years after the war was over, to 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY I75 

find that there had been quite a correspondence going on at Wash- 
ington in relation to our going back. But we went back in 1864 
to Camp Cadwallader. Here was a camp officered with officers 
who fairly glistened with gilt foil and epaulettes, even gold horse 
equipments, saddles and everything complete, and men who al- 
ways thought they put down the rebellion, although they never 
got further front than Philadelphia. They came from all parts 
of the country. Captain Cohen, I think, had charge of the camp. 
Our Regiment was ordered out on dress parade the next day after 
we got home. Of course we came back when we were ordered 
to go back, and of course we brought our fighting clothes with 
us. We had no extra clothing. We had no extra coats ; no ex- 
tra anything. We just simply had a pair of shoes, pants, flannel 
shirt and blouse, hat or cap. I did own for a portion of the 
time a pair of stockings, but I did not have them when we 
came back to Philadelphia. They ordered us out on dress pa- 
rade. Well, we did not have any trouble with dress parade at 
the front, yet neither our appearance nor our evolutions satisfied 
these gorgeous military officials who had charge of Camp Cad- 
wallader. If the Rebels had ever came to Philadelphia they would 
have had to capture Camp Cadwallader. There was an old Regi- 
ment called the Second Battalion, belonging to some Reserve 
Corps. I don't think there was any man among them who had 
more than one leg, (laughter) and there was our Regiment, and 
we came out on dress parade quite as usual. Here were all these 
gorgeous officials. We could not tell our officers by the shoulder 
straps. Sometimes they didn't wear any ; but you could not make 
any mistake about the camp officials. They had braid on their 
trousers and their coat sleeves were covered with gold foil and 
you were fairly dazzled. I don't think any Rebel Regiment could 
have stood all those officials for one moment. That gorgeous 
staff; I simply looked at them. They told us to get into position 
and our officers performed their duties as they understood them, 
and when the parade was all through they brought some little 
fellow up and he read an order which was a reflection upon our 
appearance. Now, if there is anything that makes a man mad it 
is a reflection on his personal appearance, and we all got mad 



176 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

about it, and our officers all got mad about it, and they moved 
in a body up to this official and told him pretty plainly what they 
thought about it. I think there was some profanity there, and 
the result was that they put them all under arrest and court-mar- 
tialed about half of them. The orders issued by these stay-at- 
home and gorgeously arrayed home-guard officers was an insult 
to our Regiment. It held us up to ridicule and disgrace for what 
they termed our unsoldierly appearance. Our officers resented 
this order and in a body went to headquarters and told them 
pretty plainly what they thought of it. They were court-mar- 
tialed and tried before a military court composed of wise stay- 
at-home officers and of course were convicted, and officers who 
had fought in front with great courage, and were capable and 
efficient, were dismissed from the service in disgrace for insub- 
ordination. It was a great shame and could only have been per- 
petrated by cowardly curs who were jealous of the courage which 
they did not possess. The war was soon over after this and we 
were mustered out and went to our homes. Thirty-five years 
have come and gone since then. Many of our Comrades have 
died, but their survivors glory in their memory, and during the 
few years that remain to us let us meet as often as we can and re- 
vive the recollections of as good a Regiment, composed of as brave 
men, as any in the service. Comrades, I thank you for your at- 
tention." 



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CHAPTER XVIII. 



Extracts From Speeches Made at the Camp-fire at the 
Third Annua:. Meeting of the Association at Gettys- 
burg, Pa., June 4, 1901, 

Comrade Frederick K. Ployer, of Company D. 

MR. CHAIRMAN AND COMRADES : Last night it was 
the pleasure of a few of us to sit for several hours and 
recall some of the experiences of the 187th Regiment, 
and as we talked of our experiences we of course came 
to that first eventful day, the i8th of June, 1864, and in relating 
my personal experiences I remarked that as I crossed over that 
ditch in that 'valley of death,' in which more than 200 of our boys 
bit the dust, I remarked to the Comrade that was with us last 
night, and he is with us for the first time, that as I crossed over 
this ditch, I saw an officer waving his sword coming down and 
calling 'Come on, boys, get out of this ; you will all be killed.' I 
related this experience last night. One of those who was present 
was too modest to tell me that he knew or remembered the inci- 
dent. I refer to the gallant Major George W. Merrick, and I am 
sure that I express the sentiment and feeling of every Comrade 
and friend here this afternoon when I say that we shall be very 
glad to hear from him." 

Comrade Merrick was then introduced. 

"Comrades and Members of the Regiment : I shall not pre- 
sume at this time to undertake to make a set address, but only 
to talk familiarly in a conversational way. I want to talk to you 
as it were face to face and heart to heart. I would avoid the 
error of the young man who had delivered an interminable speech, 
and asked his instructor, who was present, if he thought it was 
'a finished production.' The professor replied, 'I do now, but 
there was a time when I thought it never would be.' At this 
time I cannot refrain from expressing my gratification at meeting 



1/8 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

this remnant of the 187th Regiment, and I want to ask the privi- 
lege of being a httle personal in my remarks and say something 
about the service, and the army, and my experience that may 
interest yovi old soldiers in the way of reminiscence. I regret 
that the Governor is not here with us at this meeting. I had a 
boyhood friend with whom I used to slide down the same cellar 
door, taking our chances together against the unfriendly nails. 
A little later at school, we took the same chances against the un- 
friendly gad of the old-fashioned schoolmaster ; a little later in 
the army, serving together, we took our chances against the 
enemy's bullets and bayonets. Coming home from the war, we 
studied law together, taking our chances against the adversary. 
But in all these vicissitudes, comforts and dangers, my friend 
magnanimously bore the major part ; for the Governor, as you 
may know, always exposed more territory to the enemy than 
I could. 

"When old soldiers come together you need not wonder that 
they intensely love each other. As the Comrade said, it was 
12 o'clock last night when we separated and retired. We had no 
idea of the passage of time while we were relating past incidents 
and telling our common experiences, and we sat together for more 
than five hours and renewed our comradeship. We had oiTered 
our lives for our country. 'What rare old bond is this?' The 
greatest gift that a man can give is his life ; no man can give more 
than that. You have all been willing to die for your country and 
the man who is living to-day and made that ofifer is entitled to as 
much credit as the man who lost his life in the service. That is 
the tie of comradeship! 'Blest be the tie that binds!' 

"This is my first visit to Gettysburg, and my first meeting 
with the survivors of the 187th Regiment. I have enjoyed this 
day and it seems as if I had lived many days in one. 

"I was not in this battle, for I was entering upon my second 
enlistment under the six months' call in the First Battalion that 
was then organized to prevent the invasion of Lee, and I never 
reached this field until the present day. And what a field ! If a 
soldier wants to revive his loyalty to his country ; if any one whose 
duty to his country is becoming dormant, and he desires to open 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 1 79 

up the Stores of patriotism, he wants to come to Gettysburg. I 
have gone over this field, incUiding Little Round Top, and Semi- 
nary Ridge, and Gulp's Hill, anl all these blood-stained fields, and 
what feelings of sadness and joy, of sorrow and of gladness, steal 
over one's soul, when we know that these men fought and died 
here to protect and preserve not only themselves and their coun- 
try, but you and your country ; not only the present generation 
but for futurity as well, thereby conclusively demonstrating the 
Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. And as I 
thought of this as we traveled over the field and visited the many 
spots where died brave men, the tears crept into my eyes in recol- 
lection of the noble gift they gave to their country, and the same 
thoughts must have been in many other minds, for almost every 
eye was dimmed and glistening with tears, and there was with 
me Major Veil, andi I saw tears in his eyes. Major Veil was 
the lad who when General Reynolds met his death out here in the 
woods, was near him when he fell. He was acting as his orderly, 
but seventeen years of age, and when the General fell he ran and 
picked him up, and carried him off the field, and thus saved the 
body of his commander. The Rebel line showered shot and im- 
precations upon him. 'Drop him, you son of a b , drop him ;' 

but Veil was not taking orders from that side, and bore the body 
of his commander back over the ridge under a storm of shot to a 
place of safety. 

"Gettysburg ! Historic ground ! It shall serve to refresh the 
spirit of patriotism for all time. Waterloo was one great day ; 
here were three great days of equally desperate and deadly fight- 
ing. When the descendants of the Cavaliers met the descendants 
of the Roundheads, then came the tug of war. Lee had a more 
formidable army than ever before, flushed with recent victories, 
invading the North, elate with hope. Their great commander 
shared those hopes, and threw down the gage of battle with con- 
fidence, but made the awful blunder of assuming the offensive 
against the Union army in a strong defensive position. And al- 
though he hurled that splendid army time and again with im- 
petuous valor against the Union lines, like the waves of the sea 
beating against a rock-bound coast, it retired broken and beaten, 



l8o HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

in defeat. It was the high water mark of the rebellion ; those 
dark waters from this point began to recede. It was the begin- 
ning of the end of the lost cause. The hopes of the Confederacy 
were broken. The day was saved, and a nation was saved. 

"Speaking of brave men, do you suppose that we were all 
very fearless and anxious for a fight every chance we could get. 
O, how you are mistaken ! The person who experiences the most 
physical fear, and yet ovrcomes that fear and don't run away, he 
is the one who exercises the greatest bravery. The man who has 
every muscle shaking with terror and has every impulse and de- 
sire to run away, and yet does not do it, but stands and faces the 
danger and marches up to the cannon's mouth, that man is the 
brave man, though he trembles with fear all the time. It was not 
so bad, although it was bad enough, to hear the noise of cannon 
shot over your heads, but when the infantry opened fire, I wanted 
to run and almost every man wanted to run to get out of danger. 
I believe I exercised more bravery in standing there and quaking 
with fear, knowing of the danger, than if I had been calm and had 
not been cognizant of any danger whatever. 

"The fact of standing when you have all the impulse to run, 
is a test of courage. Now, that is true of almost all the men who 
served in the war. Every engagement a soldier went into might 
mean a mortal wound, and yet when I found that I was in such a 
situation, it was no shock to me, I was willing to sacrifice my 
life if necessary. I expected that might come in any engage- 
ment. If necessary, I was willing to give that for my country. 
If possible, I was willing to give more than that, but what I did 
regret was after I was wounded that I could not get back to the 
Regiment. My greatest regret was that I was disabled from 
coming back and taking charge of the Regiment and help it make 
a record that I knew it could make ; for there never was an or- 
ganization in the service with better material in it, more splendid 
intelligence, braver men, than this Regiment ; and I know what I 
am talking about. The material was there to make model soldiers 
and they did make model soldiers ; they were men who enlisted 
from purely patriotic motives — before the time of great bounties 
or the offering of financial considerations. Now, I say that this 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTlCER INFANTRY l8l 

Regiment was composed of just as good material and would have 
made just as fine a record as if they had served in the active ser- 
vice of the army. You did make an admirable record, for when 
I woke up on the hospital transport, General Chamberlain occu- 
pied the cot next to me, and there were fifteen of the officers of 
your Brigade on that boat. General Chamberlain said, 'Major, I 
want to commend the Regiment that you commanded ; I want to 
commend that Regiment that became veterans in a day. No 
Regiment with whatever experience could have performed their 
duty more nobly than they did. You were simply willing to take 
orders and hold your ground under tremendous odds, and that 
was the best proof of heroism.' 

"I always had a great fear of the hospital. There were three 
thousand, five hundred patients there and every morning at 5 
o'clock the old French surgeon would put his head in and ask 
about my health, and would ask if I wanted anything. Generally, 
I said 'no, nothing,' for everything needed was furnished liberally ; 
but one day I wanted oysters in July, and I got them. I mention 
this to show that the hospital service was not a very bad one 
after all. I also got the first peaches and they went to any degree 
of trouble to get them for me. In this case a darkey rowed seven 
miles across the bay to the Delaware side. This the Government 
did, to meet the mere whim of a sick soldier. What a privilege 
to serve such a Government. As a eulogy on the hospital let me 
read this poem, by Brete Harte. 

'How Are You, Sanitary?" 



'Down the picket-guarded lane. 
Rolled the comfort-laden van. 
Cheered by shouts that shook the plain, 

Soldier-like and merry. 
Phrases such as camps may teach, 
Sabre-cut of Saxon speech ; 
Such as "Bully!" "There's the peach!" 

"Wade in, Sanitary!" 



l82 HISTORY OF iS/TH REGIMENT 

'Right and left the caissons drew, 
As the car went lumbering through; 
Quick succeeding into view, 

Squadron's military. 
Sunburnt men with hearts like frieze, 
Smooth-faced boys and cries like these : 
"U. S. San. Com. !" "That's the cheese !" 

"Pass in, Sanitary!" 

'In such cheer it struggled on. 
Till the battle front was won ; 
Then the car — its journey done, 

Lo ! was stationary ! 
And where bullets, whistling fly. 
Came the sadder, fainter cry, 
"Help us, brother, ere zve die — 

Save us, Sanitary." 

'Such the work — the phantom flies, 
Wrapped in battle-clouds that rise ; 
But the brave, whose dying eyes. 

Veiled and visionary. 
See the jasper gates flung wide. 
See the parted throng outside, 
Hears the voice to those who ride : 

"Pass in. Sanitary." ' 

"In closing I also want to read you the following sweet poem, 
by M. H. Cobb : 

'Who shall relate the wondrous story 
Of man, redeemed from servile thrall. 

By men who sought their country's glory. 
And on its altars laid their all? 

How shall we honor faith so grand. 

As that which nerved the patriot band? 

Their stern resolve, their purpose high, 

The grandeur of their battle cry : 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 183 

"Freedom proclaim throughout the land, 
To all the people of the land !'' 

'And who shall hymn their great endeavor? 

Who their unselfish deeds shall sing? 
The fame of their great work shall ever 

Through the uncounted ages ring. 
The skies were dark with storms and wrath, 
Yet paused they never on their path ; 
Thro' deep distress, against the tide, 
They bravely pressed, and sternly cried : 
"The earth is God's, his children, we, 
Have vowed the new world shall be free." 

'And high above the battle thunder, 

Their stern resolve rang clearly out. 
Men heard ; the nations paused in wonder, 

And man sent back an answering shout. 
And nobly did they keep that vow. 
And we, their comrades, gather now, 
To vow anew this land shall be 
The mighty empire of the free, 
And cry as cried the patriot band : 
"Freedom proclaim throughout the land." 

'Then join with us in graceful chorus, 

For what thro' man our God hath wrought. 

The mists of doubt recede before us, 
Since they have put the wrong to rout. 

A hundred years — a hundred years, 

Of alternating hopes and fears, 

Of scars received in conflict dire, 

A victor nation, tried by fire. 

We stand to-day, and point with pride 

To what they wrought, for what they died.' " 



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PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 185 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Speech oe Captain George G. Lovett, of Company K, 187TH 
Regiment, Delivered at the Fourth Annual Reunion 
of the Regiment, at Gettysburg, Pa. 
Tuesday, June 3, 1902. 

COMRADE LOVETT: Comrade Gibbs, as acting Presi- 
dent of the organization of the Survivors of the 187th 
Regiment, P. V., you are entitled to the gratitude of our 
surviving Comrades. Through your efforts, and through yours 
especially, the remnant of those who constituted the 187th Regi- 
ment were called together. The first reunion was in 1899, and 
the effort to accomplish and consummate the work was of your 
own individual enterprise; and, sir, allow me, in behalf of my 
Comrades here, and those who are not here, to compliment you 
for your energ\-, your feeling of comradeship, and the success 
which attended your notice in 1898, and which has annually fol- 
lowed through your perseverance. The organization affected and 
completed in 1899, at Harrisburg, made Comrade William A. 
Stone, Lieutenant of Company A, President of the Regimental 
Association. He was then the incoming Governor. A Comrade 
who had distinguished himself in the field and made a noble 
record subsequently in civil life ; a man and a Comrade of whom 
we have just cause to be proud. It is fitting that he should be 
the President of the Association of Survivors of an organization 
in whose service he won credit and renown. Comrades, these 
reunions are more than that of a social gathering. They are 
educational in their character and design. We need to inter- 
change thoughts, opinions, and sentiments, to renew comrade- 
ship, to feel young again as Americans, to promulgate and dis- 
seminate our love of loyalty and patriotism. 

I see before me men and Comrades whom I have not met 
before to-day for the past thirty-eight years ; Comrades of my 



1 86 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Company upon whose opinion, friendship and fideHty I have 
trusted in the field, and who are yet the same heroic men as in 
years gone by. The organization of the 187th Regiment was 
formed under the call of the President for 500,000 volunteers of 
September, 1863. Originally the basis of the organization was 
the First Battalion, Six Months' Volunteers, enlisted and organ- 
ized in June, 1863. 

Under the provisions of the President's call of the date men- 
tioned, some of the better element of American manhood re- 
sponded, and constituting part of these were the volunteers mak- 
ing up the 187th Regiment. The men thus entering the services 
were from different parts of the State — Tioga, York, Cumber- 
land, Montour, Philadelphia, Bradford, Luzerne and Lackawanna 
counties — furnishing their quota ; the merchant, the manufacturer, 
the mechanic and the professions- were represented in the make- 
up of the 187th Regiment. Men whose moral and intellectual 
standing have been manifested in their after life. 

Thirty-nine years have almost passed since the formation of 
our Regiment. Only a few months previous to that occasion 
there was fought within our hearing one of the bloodiest battles 
of either ancient or modern times, and. Comrades, that battle 
was decided in favor of the perpetuation of a government of the 
people. Although the event of the battle of Gettysburg was not 
decisive, yet it gave the loyal people of the North great hopes of 
an early termination of the war, a complete crushing out of the 
rebellion. Following the batde of Gettysburg, the President 
called for 500,000 volunteers, being determined to crush out trea- 
son and rebellion. The South never had any just cause for re- 
bellion. Ours of the North was a holy war, to squelch insur- 
rection and treason, and preserve for future generations a united 
country with all its beneficent institutions. 

But Mr. President, I am digressing from what should be 
the limits of my talk. Our reunions are for the purpose of 
mutual benefit to each other, as well as for social reasons. The 
part which we played as a Regiment in the Civil War will be 
awarded us in history ; our services were those of patriots bring- 
ing honor and credit to our State and nation. You did your 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 1 87 

duty, Comrades, and you did it well. You assisted to restore 
order and put down treason ; to block the chasm of State rights, 
never to be reopened. 

You blotted from the Constitution the foul escutcheon of 
human slavery. Your services were those of patriots ; you fought 
not for self-aggrandizement, but for the preservation of national 
integrity and free institutions. The declarations of 1776 to the 
efifect, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men 
are created free and equal, with certain inalienable rights such as 
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," was never fulfilled 
until Grant at Appomattox wound up the rebellion of the slave 
lords. 

The defeat of the Confederates at Gettysburg, and the capture 
of Vicksburg, should have ended the Civil War July 4, 1863, but 
no, the leaders demanded the "last ditch," and their followers 
seemed willing. On the 4th of March, 1864, General Grant was 
summoned to Washington, and was commissioned as Lieutenant 
General of the Armies of the United States, the highest rank then 
known in this country, and the same that was conferred on 
Washington in 1776. He was therefore placed in command of all 
the armies of the United States, and especially to give his personal 
supervision to the Army of the Potomac. On May 4th of the 
same year, the Army of the Potomac crossed the Rapidan. Sher- 
man at the same time moved from Chattanooga in his great march 
to the sea. Butler, moved from Fort Monroe on the South by 
the James river. On the 15th of May, Grant attacked Lee, in 
the Wilderness, and he knew that a certain amount of fighting 
had to be done to accomplish his end, and also to pay the penalty 
of former failures. The Union losses in two days' fighting were 
about 18,000 men ; the Confederate losses were 12,000 men ; the 
difference due to Lee's entrenchments and the blind nature of 
the country in which the battle was fought. 

A few days subsequent to this period, Comrades, you were 
disembarking from the transports at Port Royal, on the Rappa- 
hannock river, and took up your march to Cold Harbor, to join 
the Army of the Potomac. We reached there on the 8th of June, 



1 88 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

and were attached to the Fifth Corps, General Warren command- 
ing, A brave and competent commander. 

Now, then, Mr. President and Comrades, our march takes 
us across those laybrinth of rivers, the "Lea," the "Ponie," the 
"Anti-Ponie," and the "Matapony," and twenty or more rivulets, 
which in that country were called rivers. We crossed the Pa- 
munky above the White House Landing, and engaged in the bat- 
tle of Cold Harbor, relieving Crawford's Reserves, whose time 
had expired on the day previous. The Reserves' losses at this 
battle were very heavy, yet ever onward, Comrades, by the left 
flank, Grant is in command ! The swamps of the Chickahominy, 
where other commanders had failed, were no obstacle to our pro- 
gress. We had emerged from the Wilderness, where Lee was 
supposed to destroy the Army of the Potomac, and yet after 
Spottsylvania and Cold Harbor, the grand old Army of the Po- 
tomac were in full tack and aggressive movements. We crossed 
the swamps without meeting any determined opposition, and on 
the i6th day of June we crossed the James to the south side. 
Our crossing was in the afternoon, and that same afternoon, from 
two o'clock we marched a distance of thirty-five miles to the 
breastworks in front of Petersburg. The object of Grant was 
either the capture of Richmond or the destruction of Lee's army. 
The Army of North Virginia was now penned within the en- 
trenchments of Richmond, there to remain for ten long months 
on the defensive, almost passive, while observers of merely local 
events, whilst Grant's other armies were absolutely annihilating 
the Southern Confederacy, 

On June i8th, our Regiment engaged in that terrible assault 
in front of Petersburg. The Regiment, both officers and men, 
exhibited rare skill and bravery. Unsupported for several hours, 
we maintained and held our own immediately under the walls of 
the fort, repelling every sortie of the Rebels until we were ordered 
to retire. Our loss was very heavy. Here Major Merrick fell 
dangerously wounded. There was no braver or more gallant 
officer of his rank in the service. His wound caused the ampu- 
tation of his limb and his necessary retirement. 

In this engagement our Regiment lost a commander, an of- 




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ficer of brilliant intelligence and soldierly qualities. Of my own 
Company K, Ammerman was killed and Second Lieutenant 
George S. Walker severely wounded. The loss of whom em- 
barrassed me to a great extent. He was an officer upon whom 1 
could depend at all times ; brave, fearless and intelligent. When 
ordered to retire, it was done under good order and military dis- 
cipline. General Chamberlain, our Brigade Commander, was 
dangerously wounded in this engagement and had to be taken 
from the field. He ordered, in the meantime, his Adjutant to 
have an order issued "complimenting the 187th Regiment for 
their gallantry and noble bearing in the assault on the Rebel 
fort." General Warren, in his report of the assault to General 
Grant, strongly compliments the action of the Regiment in their 
heroic conduct of the charge on the fort ; a strong position oc- 
cupied by a superior force and well supplied with artillery. The 
action and conduct of the 187th Regiment on this occasion in 
question demonstrated the fact that Rives' Salient could not be 
taken by direct assault unless at a fearful sacrifice of life, which 
Grant did not propose to do, as the occupancy of the fort would 
not have strengthened his position. Lee and the Army of 
Northern Virginia were fast, their boundaries were fixed, in- 
evitably circumscribed. 

On the 22d of June our command moved further to the 
left along the line of the Jerusalem Plank Road. From that time, 
Comrades, until we were ordered to the State, the history of the 
Fifth Corps is our history, whether skirmish or reconnaissance, 
you were there and always ready to participate in any trouble 
that may have caused our presence and action necessary. Your 
steady bearing at the Jerusalem Plank Road in reinforcing the 
Second Corps, saved that organization from disaster ; and again, 
in the destruction of the Weldon Railroad and tearing up the 
track, your skill was exhibited and your bravery commended by 
such an old soldier-veteran as General Griffin. Upon all oc- 
casions wherein you were called to action, whether in the con- 
flict of battle, the skirmish, or the march, you acquitted your- 
selves with credit. 

When in battle, or on the march, obedience and patriotic in- 



194 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMIiNT 

telligence seemed to be the controlling element of our organiza- 
tion. You were, Comrades, associated with the Army of the Po- 
tomac in its final campaign against treason and insurrection, the 
controlling military forces of the United States; and I here re- 
peat, or assert, that the Army of the Potomac contained no Regi- 
ment more loyal to its Government or more obedient to its Gen- 
erals, than that of the 187th Regiment. There were few days, if 
any, from the time you joined the Army of the Potomac until 
you were sent North, that you were not engaged either in battle, 
reconnoiter, skirmish or picket duty. 

I was wounded, and dangerously so, on the 23rd day of June, 
1864, immediately after our movement to the left along the Jeru- 
salem Plank Road. I had lost Walker, a serious and sad thing 
for our Company. It left my command in a position not to be 
envied. The Regiment had lost its virtual leader in the disable- 
ment of Major George W. Merrick. 

The leaders of the rebellion of 1861 to 1865 were terribly in 
earnest. It required strategy and courage to subdue them. It 
was accomplished, however, by a fearful sacrifice of life. Four 
hundred and sixty-six thousand, eight hundred and eighty-six 
men laid down their lives that the Republic might live. 

Comrades, it is well for us to take retrospect of the past at 
our reunions. While nothing can be recalled, there is much we 
like to think of that transpired in those halcyon days ; but they 
were the springtime of our life, the heyday of our existence, when 
we went forth to defend and uphold the unity and perpetuation of 
this nation ; and. Comrades, we regret very much that our Presi- 
dent, Comrade Stone, is unable to be present owing to the pres- 
sure of official business. There is no Comrade of this organiza- 
tion better qualified to speak of the past ; none more true and 
brave, or better beloved by his Comrades than William A. Stone ; 
and not by his Comrades alone, but by the people of this great 
Commonwealth, of whom he is the beloved Executive; brave in 
action, a true patriot and friend, uncompromising in principal, in 
honor and integrity. In his absence, and that of the other Com- 
rades that cannot be with us to-day, we nevertheless think of 
them, while we shall revere the memory of those who have 



PENNSYIvVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY I95 

answered the last roll-call and joined the great bivouac of eternity. 
Let our annual memorial tribute be planted upon their resting 
place. They died for a cause which is the future hope of man- 
kind. 

Now, Mr. President and Comrades, a few more words and I 
am done, for I have already detained you too long. The past has 
taught us that the American people, in war as in peace, are equal 
to every emergency. Men bred to the professions and to the 
finer callings of art and trade were both able and willing to 
shoulder the musket when their country needed their service, but 
never again will American Volunteers be pitted against American 
Volunteer. Ready at all times to resent foreign intrusion, we 
stand as one people ready to defend American nationality and 
American principles. 

The principles for which we fought in 1861 and 1865, did 
not end with the subjugation of armed rebellion; the influence of 
the survivors of that conflict has been seen, and is marked by the 
trend of both political parties since 1868. Their influences have 
been welded into statutory law by the lawmaking power of the 
Nation, and fearlessly carried into execution by the Executive 
of both Nation and State. 

Comrades, no praise can be too great for the men that passed 
through the ordeal of 1861 and 1865. Enduring fatigue without a 
murmur, successfully meeting all attacks made upon them, always 
in the right place in the right time, and emerging from the fiery 
ordeal a compact army of veterans, equal to any task that brave 
and disciplined men can be called upon to undertake. Survivors 
of the 187th Regiment, our command were as patient, brave and 
courageous and chivalrous as any marshalled on that occasion, 
men of exceptionally good character and personality, brave, noble 
and true. 



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CHAPTER XX. 



Speech oe Comrade Francis M. Stoke, of Company D, at the 

Fourth Annual Meeting of the Association, 

AT Gettysburg, Pa., June 3- 1902. 

MR. PRESIDENT and Comrades of the 187th Regiment, 
I did not expect to be called upon at this late hour to 
speak at this reunion, but being captured by our worthy 
Vice President, Comrade J. M. Gibbs, in the camp of my friends, 
I have nothing to fear, and should be able to say something. My 
late arrival was no fault of mine, but grew out of the withdrawal 
of the morning train leaving Carlisle for Gettysburg. I am able 
to be here, however, by trolley to Mt. Holly, and then after wait- 
ing four hours in doubt and anxiety as to whether I would be 
able to reach here in time to enjoy any of the pleasures of this 
reunion, I have reached this historic town by rail. 

Comrades, I am glad to meet you again in reunion and take 
you by the hand. When I look around me, memories of the past 
crowd upon me so fast for recognition that I am at loss to know 
what to say first. I think of you as you were lined up for battle 
with the flush of young manhood on your faces. I think of you 
in the campaign of '64 from Cold Harbor, the objective point 
being Petersburg ; how you marched twenty hours out of twenty- 
four for days through a network of creeks and rivers, wet from 
Islonday morning till Saturday night, having to subsist for three 
days on one spoonful of cornmeal, foraged from an old mill on 
the Pamonkey river. I think of you when, weary and exhausted, 
the defenses of Petersburg were reached after seventy-mile were 
covered under a burning sun with bleeding feet, harassed by Lee's 
army in front and flanks, and trailed by guerillas in our rear. I 
remember how, in the presence of the enemy, we were not per- 
mitted to make fire and had to forego the much needed pint of 
coffee. My memory has singled out that day of days to the 187th 
Regiment, the i8th of June, 1864, when, as the command rang 



198 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

out along the line, "Fall in ; forward, march ; charge bayonets," 
to which our Regiment responded, and the bloody battle of the 
"Ravine" and "Fort Hell" was on in all its horrid fury. I see you 
in memory as you forced back the foe into the fort and defenses 
and held your position with faces to the enemy until night fell 
on this day of bloody baptism, and the 187th Regiment was with- 
drawn to take a position further to the left of the line. Com- 
rades, the battle for the day was over, our ranks were thinned, a 
funeral pall settled upon us ; more than two hundred of our Regi- 
ment had been killed or wounded, as I can verify by my old camp- 
worn diary, in which I noted the casualties of that memorable 
day. As I had the green insignia of the Ambulance Corps on my 
arm, and was on the field all day among the dead and dying, I was 
in a position to know our losses. Add to this our losses on the 
Weldon Railroad, and we have perhaps 300 killed and wounded 
up to August 1st of that year. Many of the wounds were too 
slight to be noticed, but when a soldier is but slightly wounded 
he is near the dead line. I know of Comrades who long have 
passed to the better camping ground from wounds considered 
but slight at the time. In the rush by historians to get first into 
print, the 187th Regiment has not received justice, but the valor 
and sacrifice of the dead and living will not be forgotten. 

Comrades, I do not wish to weary you, as the time has al- 
ready passed to adjourn. But before closing, allow me to say 
that in the beginning of my extempore talk I spoke of your being 
lined up for battle with the flush of young manhood, on your 
faces, but since those days that tried men's souls, the pencil of 
time has been doing its work in scouring my face and yours. 
My brown hair is now white like blossoms of the almond tree of 
Scripture. We are nearing the last roll call, but these reunions 
will ever be to us an oasis as our feeble steps draw us nearer 
to the last camping ground. May a kind Providence bring us 
together often in reunion as we have met to-day. 



pennsylvania volunteer infantry 199 

Speech of Comrade Lewis Rodenhoffer, of Company F, De- 
livered AT THE Camp-fire, at Wellsboro, Pa., 
September 7, 1904. 
Mr. Chairman, Comrades, Survivors of the 187th Regiment, 
Ladies and Gentlemen : It is not my purpose to make much of 
a speech, but I will try and interest you so far as I can. I well 
remember when the Stars and Stripes were fired upon at Fort 
Sumter, in April, 1861. What an excitement went over this 
country, and when the first call for 75,000 volunteers was made 
by President Lincoln, and in what a short time they were march- 
ing on to Washington. I, myself, wanted to enlist, but they said 
I was too young, so I had to wait until I was older, and I became 
three year's older in one and a half years, and I said that I was 
eighteen, and so I and some other chums of mine concluded to 
enlist, so we ran away from home and parents and went to Har- 
risburg, Pa., and enlisted and soon got on the blue, and was fully 
equipped as Volunteers. My father went to Harrisburg and 
called upon the great old War Governor, Andrew G. Curtin, to 
get his son back home, but we had been sent away, and I re- 
mained in the service. As you well know, the soldiers of the 
Civil War were mostly very young men, anywhere from fifteen 
years up. I notice there are many young men here this evening, 
who were born since the war closed, and to them a reunion of 
this kind must be most inspiring, and be of much value and in- 
teresting as an object lesson, which should and I know will, m- 
still into them patriotism and a love of country, when they learn 
of the sufferings and privations of these soldiers, survivors of the 
Civil War, mostly young men then, now up in years, not many of 
us now under sixty years of age, after a period of almost forty 
years since the war ended. 

I have looked forward for some time to this reunion of the 
Survivors of the 187th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer In- 
fantry, in your city of Wellsboro, and I am much pleased with 
the hospitality shown us here by the citizens ; and we. the mem- 
bers of the Regiment, after we return to our homes, will ever 
keep in remembrance the reception we have received here, which 
is an evidence of the loyalty and patriotism that exists among the 



200 HISTORY Off 187TH REGIMENT 

citizens of Wellsboro. I was most delighted to meet our Major, 
George \V. Merrick, your honored townsman, who received and 
entertained me in the kindest manner possible, and the short time 
that I was a guest of the Major, and his most amiable wife, was 
a source of much pleasure to me and was well worth coming from 
Buffalo, N. Y. for. Right here I want to say to you people of 
Wellsboro, that the i8th day of June, 1864, when our Regiment 
was engaged in the terrible assault on the Rebel breastworks, in 
front of Petersburg, Va., subsequently named Fort Hell, and a 
most appropriate name, especially so as our Regiment held the 
most hazardous position in that terrible charge. And unsup- 
ported we maintained and held our position under the most ter- 
rific fire of musketry, and grape and canister, shot and shell, and 
in which the Regiment, both officers and men, exhibited wonder- 
ful bravery. Our loss was tremendous, about 230 in killed and 
wounded, and the behavior of the Regiment that day has given it 
immortal fame. I was wounded quite early in the engagement, a 
minnie ball passing through my left ankle, causing amputation 
of the foot about five inches above the ankle. It was here, also, 
that our Major, George W. Merrick, who had charge of the Regi- 
ment and led them into battle, was severely wounded. I was 
wounded sometime before the Major and was in such a position 
for sometime in which I had full view of the line of the Regiment 
and its exploits ; and the heroism of the Major here displayed was 
wonderful ; under his command the Regiment, every member of 
it, became a hero. The line of battle of the Regiment in this 
charge, led by Major Merrick, was wonderful for the perfect line 
and manner in which they followed their leader, until compelled 
to fall back, amid the shower of bullets from the Rebel breast- 
works. Just prior to this I noticed two soldiers carried a 
wounded soldier, and coming toward me, and almost tramping 
on me, which could not be helped, as the dead and wounded 
soldiers were lying thick all around. 

As they passed me I noticed that it was our dear heroic 
Major, who was dangerously wounded, and I felt then what a 
loss to our Regiment, for there was no braver or more gallant an 
officer ever took a Regiment into battle. After this I still lay on 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INEANTRY 201 

the field over four hours, into the darkness of the night, when the 
batteries of both sides opened with shot and shell, bursting in 
mid-air, and a most wonderful display of fireworks, which was 
kept up for some twenty or thirty minutes, after which I made an 
effort to get off the field, and being quite weak from the loss of 
blood, I crawled up the brow of the hill through the sassafras 
bushes from three to four feet high, in which the dead soldiers 
were taking their last sleep. So thick were they lying there, I 
was compelled to crawl over their dead bodies until directly I 
heard a voice, which I recognized and whom I called to me, and 
who proved to be two stretcher bearers, Michael Caslin and Isaac 
Rantz, of Company C, who placed me on a stretcher, and carried 
me back and then, you bet, I felt better, and after having my 
wound dressed, was put to bed on some straw laying on the 
ground among the hundreds already lying there. 

Now, that was an awful night for the surgeons, as they 
were amputating limbs all night. The next day I was sent to 
City Point, and from there, after two days, was put on board of 
a transport which carried me and about three hundred wounded 
soldiers, to New York, and distributed them among the different 
hospitals. Now, I think that I have taken up enough of your 
time and I will give way to other speakers who are to follow. I 
thank you for your attention. 

Remarks of F. K. Ployer at Wellsboro Meeting. 

Mr. Chairman, Comrades of the 187th Regiment Pennsyl- 
vania Volunteers, Ladies and Gentlemen : I am quite at a loss 
to know why I should be called upon to make remarks at this 
point in the meeting unless it be that that Committee in arranging 
the program deemed it wise that the "good wine" should be kept 
for the "end of the feast," when this good audience might other- 
wise be tired out and the less appreciative. 

You, Mr. Chairman, — our good Vice-President — in opening 
stated that we would be addressed by his honor, Ex-Governor 
Stone, Colonel Sample, Major Merrick, Colonel Young, Comrade 
Foote and others. If my idea of the arrangement of the order of 



202 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

the speakers is the correct one, I must heartily commend the 
Committee for its wise judgment. 

I have no speech. In fact I did not expect to be called out 
and willingly would I give my time to those better able to interest 
this assemblage, and I most sincerely offer an apology to this 
highly respectable and appreciative audience for attempting to 
make an address without due thought and preparation. 

From the number of speakers in prospect, and from my 
knowledge of the fact that an old soldier "can always give a rea- 
son for the faith which is in him," and that he is never known 
to falter in a duty commanded, I would suggest that short speeches 
must necessarily be the order of the evening. With the permis- 
sion of the ministers on the platform and in the audience, who are 
always, and very rightly, the conservators of a pure Holy Writ, 
I will suggest a new beatitude for the speakers who follow, 
"Blessed are they who make short speeches, for they shall be 
invited again." 

I want to congratulate this Association in the large and 
highly appreciative audience which has gathered the second time 
this afternoon to greet and honor the members of this Regiment. 
It is truly a great honor to be greeted by such an audience. It 
is an honor to be invited to hold this re-union in the beautiful 
little city of Wessboro — nestled among these beautiful and ever- 
lasting mountains — the home of our beloved comrades of Com- 
pany '"A," including in its citizenship our beloved Comrade Ex- 
Governor Stone, Major Merrick, Captain Webb, Colonel Young, 
Comrade Foote and others — men who have not only proved them- 
selves valiant soldiers of the Civil War,, but have won deserved 
and distinguished honors in the battles of State, and national, 
civil, social and business life. 

This perhaps will account for this large and enthusiastic 
pouring out of the population of this community to greet the old 
soldier. 

It is indeed a rare pleasure to meet tlie members of Company 
"A," many of whom, on account of distance from the place of 
former meetings, we have not met for forty years. It is a rare 
pleasure, indeed, to grasp them by the hand, to look into their 



PUNNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 203 

faces once again. Believe me, and I say it without attempt to 
flatter, that nowhere has it been my pleasure to look into the 
faces of thirty or more old soldiers of the Civil War on whose 
faces and forms the ravages of time have less and lighter pene- 
tration. To my mind, it argues for the atmosphere of your sur- 
roundings — the purity of this mountain air — the purity and gen- 
eral prosperity of this people in its civic and domestic life. 

As we were driven through your streets and parks, and over 
the surrounding hills, this afternoon, I was impressed with the 
thought that ''man makes the city, but God made the country and 
the everlasting hills." That you have a beautiful little city, with 
wide and regular streets, cottages and residences, surrounded by 
beautiful and well kept lawns, is an evidence of culture, taste, 
comfort and thrift, remarkable, indeed, considering your dis- 
tance from the financial and population centres of this grand old 
Keystone State. I have come to the conclusion that there is in 
this case a most happy combination of the works of art and 
nature. 

Now, in regard to this grand Regiment, we would not have 
you believe that we put down the war. Composed as it was very 
largely of men who had seen service in prior enlistments — from 
the time it appeared in active service at Cold Harbor, it never 
faltered in its duty and never failed to exert a decided influence 
in the closing period of the war. No old and trained Regiment 
could have rendered more heroic service than did this Regiment 
on that eventful i8th day of June, 1864, when, under the gallant 
leadership and the inspiration of its Brigade Commander, General 
Chamberlain, and its own line officers, Major Merrick, Captain 
Webb and others, without support on its left, it charged against 
that impenetrable wall of muskets and cannon — with more than 
two hunderd of its men and officers killed, wounded and disabled, 
it held its position grandly for more than six hours, until, with- 
drawn in good order and afterwards forming a part of the 
entrenched line which wa? held and maintained by our troops until 
the fall of Petersburg. 

I repeat this Regiment did not put down the war, but no 
Regiment in the Army of the Potomac, or elsewhere, rendered 



204 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

better service for the term of its enlistment, and the Regiment in 
an eminent degree is worthy of all the encomiums of praise given 
it by the General of the Army and by its Corps and Brigade 
Commanders. 

In conclusion, I will say that I am proud to have belonged 
to the 187th Regiment. As we touched elbows in 1864, under 
that awful baptism of fire, and as when amidst the wounded and 
dying, we took courage in God and in our comrades, so it is a 
rare pleasure and comfort to strike hands again with our com- 
rades in these re-unions. There is a tie that binds us more closely 
than any earthly tie, and this is being more closely cemented by 
these annual re-unions, each one of which is becoming more and 
more interesting as the years come and go. 

I bespeak a good attendance for our next meeting at York. 
Again, I say, it has been a great pleasure to me to meet the 
comrades again, and especially the men of Company "A" in the 
midst of their families and their very pleasant and comfortable 
environments. I thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your kind 
and respectful attention. 

Remarks of Captain R. B. Webb. 

Weeesboro, Pa., Sept. y, ipo4. 

Mr. Chairman, Comrades, Ladies and Gentlemen : I had 
received the "tip" that as Captain of Company "I" of this Regi- 
ment, I would be called upon to make a ten minute talk to-night ; 
and as I am not a public speaker I set myself to work preparing 
what I thought would be a nice little impromptu speech. 

But it is all gone. I don't know a word of it. Comrade 
Ployer has knocked it all out of me. I think I made a mistake, — 
I gave him an introduction to my wife, and he has been feeding 
her taffy, and I now find myself very much in the condition I was 
in when I first took command of Company "I" on the i8th of 
June, 1864, of which so much has been said — but not the half. 
I was badly scared at the time. I can see the clergy before me 
now ; I do not need you now, but had I seen ten thousand of you 
during the five minutes before that charge was made I should 
have asked the prayers of every one of you. My only hope at 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 205 

that time was in the prayers of my mother. After Major Mer- 
rick had taken us from the ravine to the top of the hill, I felt a 
little of the old spirit arise in me (I had served with him m the 
old Pennsylvania Reserves) ; I knew he had nerve and I thought 
I had a little myself, but when he said to me, "We are to charge 
those works," and I had taken a birdseye view of them, my heart 
dropped into my shoes. Within one hundred rods to our right 
was a large fort mounted with many big guns, most of them 
trained upon our position. From this fort, running our whole 
front in a semi-circle was a line of breast-works a half mile long, 
over which I counted ten field pieces. I could see sticking over 
the tops of the works the shining barrels of three thousand Rebel 
rifles and I knew there was a Johnnie behind every one of them. 
At the end of these works, on our left flank, was another large 
fort mounted by more big guns. 

My night-mare was worse. Cold drops stood on my fore- 
head I could still use my eyes, and turned them to the rear. 
Over a broad plain for a mile or more not a blue coat was m 
sight. By this time my blood was frozen solid. I realized for 
the first time in my life that I was a coward. 

What had become of the rest of our Division ? Not in sight, 
surely. Here was our Regiment and there was Major Merrick, 
a little pale, but in perfect control of his body and head. Yes, 
and there was Colonel Chamberlain coming down our lines 
cool, calm, field-glass in hand, surveying the field to our rear. I 
found my heart,— I could hear it beat. 

The Colonel came down the rear of our line, and between 
Companies "D" and "I" took out his watch and held it in his 
hand, still looking to the rear,-it might have been five minutes, 
to me it was a life-time. He stepped between Companies ' D 
and "I" and several paces to the front, faced about, drew his 
sword, and gave the command, clear as a trumpet, "Attention! 
Trail arms! Double quick, march!" And waving his sword 
toward the fort on our right, he set us the pace forward. My 
nightmare was gone. I had received an inspiration like an elec- 
tric shock. I must do as my leader had done,-I could not help 
it Comrade Plover savs that I also waved my sword toward the 



206 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

fort on our right and shouted to Company "I," "Come on." If 
it was a brave act, give Colonel Chamberlain the credit for it. 
I thought he had challenged me to a foot race. 

From the throats of our boys in the rear came an inspiring 
yell, but the answer to that yell came from the other side of the 
field. It came from the throats of fifty cannon and from three 
thousand rifles, and within five seconds the air was full of all 
kinds of deadly things, shrieking bullets, big shells bursting in 
front, over head and in rear, with solid shot plowing furrows 
under our feet, grape and canister mowing swaths in the brush 
and grass all around us, minnie balls making strange music in 
our ears, — all tearing, mangling, and killing the thousand brave 
boys that were following their brave Colonel. But he soon fell. 
The Lieutenant had won the race. The Colonel with a desperate 
wound, had won his stars. 

Comrades, I see the Chairman looking at his watch ; I have 
outrun my ten minutes. If I have given you a poor talk, blame 
Comrade Plover, — for he gave me my text. 

Remarks of Comrade H. M. Foote. 

Mr. Chairman and Comrades: My good friend. Major 
Merrick, has told you that I was a roaring Methodist, and this 
too, after referring to the fact that during the war I did not have 
much respect for the rights of property, and that since the war 
I am in the habit of prevaricating a little upon these occasions. 
I do not care so much about myself as I do about the Church, 
because its members are just now putting up a new Church 
building here and this announcement of 'the Major's may possibly 
interfere with the enterprise. Sometimes, as good a Presbyter- 
ian as the Major, gets a little off in his statements when patriotism 
runs high. But, then, in his case, it was so ordained, while with 
me, I can make a proper expiation of the offense by the exhibition 
of a contrite spirit and being born over. 

His charge, however, reminds me of a dream. I dreamed I 
had died and that there stood a ladder reaching to the entrance 
of the other world. Saint Peter stood at the foot of the ladder 
and around him were huge boxes ; he opened one as I approached, 
and taking a package of chalk out of it, handed it to me saying, 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 20/ 

"Foote, you used to have some cunning tricks about you in 
the other world. Now, as an atonement, you have got to 
make a cross upon each round of that ladder, as you climb 
towards the pearly gate, for every story that you ever told, 
I started up, after getting on a couple of miles or more, I heard 
a sound above me and upon looking up I saw it was the Major, 
I said to him, "What in the world are you coming back for?" He 
replied, "I'm coming down after more chalk." 

But seriously. Comrades, I want to extend to you a most cordial 
welcome. The liberty of the town is yours while we hold you 
with outstretched arms. 

I want to remind you that you are here in this quiet little 
village which had its birth just one hundred years ago. It got 
out of its swaddling clothes, passed successfully its teething 
period, and held up its head as quite a youngster fifty years before 
the sound of fife and drum was heard upon its streets early in 
April, 1861. 

I want also to remind you that we are pretty well up in the 
world. We are a mountain town, stuck in here between these 
everlasting hills, 1400 feet above the level of the sea, and being 
a little nearer the eternal city than some of our neighbors, we 
naturally feel somewhat more elevated than they do; this advan- 
tage of location may possibly account for the intense morality of 
our people. 

This town has been the habitation of men who have rendered 
conspicuous service not only in military, but in civil life. Genius, 
as well as patriotism, are both products of our municipality. One 
of our citizens, Judge Williams, has adorned the bench of the 
highest court of the State. Another townsman. Comrade Stone, 
of Company "A," has been the Chief Magistrate of this imperial 
Commonwealth, while others have served with distinction in both 
Houses of Congress and in each branch of the Legislature, and 
in the Departments of our State Government. 

When I consider the names of some of our people who have 
served their country in military life, I call to mind Major Mer- 
rick and Captain Webb, of our Regiment ; Colonel Xiles and 
Lieutenants Truman and Morgan, of the Bucktails ; Captain Hills 
and Lieutenants Smith and Hoag, of the 45th ; Carl, of the Re- 



2o8 HISTORY OF 187TH 8e:GIMENT 

serves ; Captain Sofield, of the 149th ; and General Cox, and 
Lieutenant Karr, of the 207th, and there are others whose names 
I cannot now recall. The heroic sacrifice of these men will adorn 
the pages of our Nation's history as long as the Republic endures. 

Company A , and a part of Company I, of the regiment were 
enlisted here. In that terrible campaign before Petersburg dur- 
ing the Summer of 1864, Company A lost six of its men who 
were killed ; nine others who died of wounds ; six who died of dis- 
ease contracted there; besides ten more who received honorable 
wounds ; and when it is considered that not to exceed sixty-five 
men of the Company answered to roll-call on the i8th day of 
June, and that this same rate of casualties extended to every Com- 
pany in the Regiment, we believe that we are entitled to hon- 
orable mention in that historic campaign, and I take this oppor- 
tunity to make these statements in order to refute the impression 
that the Regiment did nothing but State service. 

But I have already taken too much of your time in trying to 
entertain you. Stone, and several others are waiting to tell you 
a lot of things about the war, some of which never happened 
till long after Lee surrendered. The Governor may incidentally 
refer to some of my capers, and he may so far forget himself as 
to remind you that I sometimes resort to the same expedient that 
he does in order to make up a speech. He told the good and 
true people of Wellsboro at the centennial the other day that I 
was the biggest distorter of facts in the county. He wouldn't 
have dared to say that several years ago, before he moved to 
Pittsburg, because no one would have believed him. 

In conclusion, I just want to say that I'm not going to extol 
your patriotism or remind you that the country wouldn't have 
been saved but for your fighting qualities. You did not come 
here to be told something which you more than half suspect was 
true. History has written down your services, and it is said 
there that you all nobly did your duty. We are here to renew the 
comradeship which sprang up almost half a century ago, and 
which was christiened with blood and with the smoke of battle. 
"You have fought a good fight," "You have kept the faith," and 
may the good Lord postpone the order for you "To finish your 
course," as long as He conveniently can. 




WILLIAM R. HOUSHOLDER. COMPANY D. 
Member of Executive Committee. Survivors' Association. 




JAMES DLXX. CU-MPAXV 




II. r.. WILKINSON'. COMPANY l'.. 




CAPTAIN juiix i:. Ri-:ii.i.i:\'. comtaxn' i" 



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213 



CHAPTER XXL 




"Bill Blain and His Mule." 

Written by Lczvi^ H. Milner, Company B, 187th Regiment P. V. 

In the Company in which I 
served during the war was a 
character named Blain, and I 
claim he was the only true and 
original Blain. Mark Twain in 
his "Roughing It," tells of a 
fellow by the name of Jim Blain, 
and there is a picture of him 
seated on an old powder keg, 
telling his story of the old ram, 
and he claims that was the origi- 
nal Blain. But I expect to prove 
that the Blain that I speak of 
was ahead of him in more ways than one. 

Bill Blain, of Company B, was rather good looking, with 
fine features, jet black hair and eyes, a well drilled man, very neat 
and clean in person, a first-rate cook and most terribly addicted 
to profanity. I think that when he was young and active he 
could out-swear any man it has ever been my lot to listen to. On 
more than one occasion I have seen a Regiment of soldiers stand 
mute and speechless while Blain told them in strong language 
what he thought of them, and when he had cowed them down so 
that none of them would talk back, he would turn away laughing 
and sav, he was only in fun and did not mean it. 

Blain's bunk mate, Brooks, was a litde lazy and would lie in 
the tent and let him do all the cooking. Blain said Brooks was 
too dirty to cook, and would never wash his dishes, which Blain 
would always do if he could get water enough. This idea of 
washing dishes had never occurred to any of the rest, and it 



214 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIME^NT 

made us think Blain a little "stuck up." On the i8th of June, 
1864, Brooks was badly wounded and Blain had to hunt up 
another partner. Of course, being a good cook, he had numer- 
ous applicants for the position, but any hint from any one that 
they would like to go in with him, only drew torrents of pro- 
fanity from him. At last he found a partner to suit him, and 
every thing went on swimmingly, but did not stop the profanity. 
Now for the mule. Some place on the Chickahominy River, I 
think, the cofifee coolers picked up an old mule. He was not a 
U. S. mule, but an old Virginia mule. 

He would have been perfectly white with age if the dirt had 
been cleaned off him, but that was an impossibility. I do not 
think, if the Fifth Corps had been armed with curry combs, they 
could have curried that mule. How the coffee coolers ever got 
their baggage on the mule, I never knew. When we would com- 
mence breaking camp, they would start the mule to kicking by 
trying to put the pack on his back, but I never saw them finish it. 
We would be out of sight long before they got everything on him. 
When we would camp, they would come up after awhile with a 
pack as big as a Saratoga trunk on the mule, and a coffee cooler 
perched on top of it. When loaded, the mule would go along 
with a gait, very much like a camel, his head down, biting at 
every bush and bit of grass he could see ; one ear turned straight 
forward, and the other back along his neck, and one eye looking 
back between his legs to see if anything was approaching his 
rear. In the Company was a raw German by the name of 
Johannas, who, unlike any other German soldier I ever knew, 
was very cowardly. He was in constant dread of being killed 
and tried every way he could to get sent to the hospital. He 
went to the Doctor every day, and tried every excuse he could 
invent to get the Doctor to order him to the hospital. He even 
tried to get the Captain to give him a furlough. One day a 
thought struck him, he deliberately walked up behind the old 
mule and shook his haversack — that was enough — there was a 
pass to the hospital and a furlough to boot in that maneuver. 
The mule kicked once. As soon as Johannas got breath to get 
up and speak, he rushed to the Captain, with both hands on his 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 21 5 

stomach, and gasped, "O Captain! Captain! The moole havva 
me kicked! Send me to the hospital!'' The Captain promptly 
gave him a square cursing and sent him to the hospital, and we 
never saw him again for six months. There was a standing 
debate among the boys with regard to the age of the mule, some 
of the boys asserting that he had been in Noah's Ark, but Keister, 
who was well versed in history, both sacred and profane (his 
father being a minister of the gospel), said there were no mules 
in the Ark, at best, that one could not have been there, as he 
would have kicked the bottom out of it, and the human family 
would have perished from the face of the earth. One day while 
the mule was tied to an old breastwork, Keister got a musket 
with a bayonet on it, and getting on the opposite side for safety, 
pried open its mouth to examine its teeth. After careful inspec- 
tion, he said the marks of age had all left its teeth, and as the 
marks leave a mule's teeth at ninety-one, there was no way of 
telling its age. He said that the mule had probably hauled tim- 
ber to build Jamestown, the first settlement in Virginia, and that 
Pocahontas had probably gazed on that very mule. Keister 
then favored the boys with a scientific lecture on the mule, and 
among other things, said the true name of the mule was "Mulus 
Natrix," and was so named by Tinnaeus, a celebrated naturalist, 
who lived some hundreds of years ago, and who was the original 
inventor of the mule. When asked what "Mulus Natrix" meant, 
he said it was Latin, and for an ignoramus not to ask foolish 
questions. 

On the i8th of August, 1864, the Fifth Corps was sent to 
take and hold the Weldon Railroad, and for several days we had 
severe fighting, and as we were in the front line, of course, the 
coflfee coolers' mule and officers' provisions were far in the rear. 
For a couple of days the boys divided with the officers, and then 
the Captain asked who w^ould volunteer to go to the rear, find the 
cooks, cook him something to eat, and bring it to the front. No 
one volunteered, and knowing Blain's great ability as a cook, the 
Captain finally ordered him to go. After a considerable time, 
Blain came back bringing a "Good square meal," which was 
greatly enjoyed by the officers. Blain said that he had to search 



2l6 HISTORY OF iS/TH REGIMENT 

over a square mile of woods to find the coffee coolers, but when 
he did find them he gave them the best cursing they had gotten 
for some time. We all believed that, as we know his matchless 
ability in that line. While the firing lasted, it was Blain's duty 
to go to the rear and cook the officers' rations. Not a pleasant 
pastime, as it was extremely dangerous going back and forth in 
range of the sharpshooters. After about a week the Rebels con- 
cluded to leave us in peaceable possession of the railroad and the 
Captain ordered Blain to take charge of the mule and do the 
cooking for himself and the Lieutenant. Staying back in the 
woods did not suit Blain, so he moved his camp up front and 
tied the mule to an old breastwork and then the circus com- 
menced. Blain could not draw forage for his mule, so he had 
to go on plundering expeditions. He would ride up near a 
wagon train or Battery of Artillery while the horses were eat- 
ing and take the bridle off the mule. That was enough. That 
mule would just walk in among the horses, kick one one way, 
and another another way and then proceed to eat their feed, and 
it was impossible for the teamsters to drive it away until Blain 
put in an appearance, which he never did as long as he could 
help it. I remember on one occasion seeing the mule walk in 
among the horses of Battery B, First Pennsylvania Artilly, and 
begin to eat their feed.' The artilleryman who was on guard 
with a saber charged the mule, but was met half way and com- 
pelled to fall back. The mule rushed at him with open mouth 
till it was within kicking distance when it suddenly wheeled 
around and backing rapidly toward the man, commenced to kick, 
causing the guard to fall back in disorder. I could hear the 
vicious "flip," "flip," "flip," of his heels, while the man dodged 
around things to get out of his way. The man then got a pistol 
and swore that he would shoot the mule, but just then Blain 
came up and then to hear the profanity ! All the men who be- 
longed to the battery turned out to help their man to swear, but 
they were no match for Blain. He swore till all of them stood 
Uke wooden men and never said a word. Blain came back lead- 
ing the mule and laughing. As he tied it to the breastwork, I 
heard him say, "Dast it, that is the way to get feed for the mule. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 217 

They don't come it over Blain ; not much." On another occasion 
the mule went to the camp of the Brigade Pioneers who had two 
mules, and deliberately walking in between them, kicking one 
then the other away from his feed, commenced to eat. One of 
the Pioneers tried to drive him away, but got cleaned up in- 
stantly. Then all of them got poles and charged at once, but 
that was a failure. The mule began kicking in earnest, and the 
Pioneers fell back, thoroughly demoralized. One of them came 
running down to the Regiment to get a musket to shoot the mule, 
but about that time Blain appeared on the scene and got in his 
work. 

He began to swear as usual. The Pioneers dried up at once 
and after the mule had eaten all the feed, Blain led him away. 
Blain would often take long rides on the mule, and if any one 
asked him where he had been, he would most likely say that he 
had been inspecting the lines or that General Grant had sent for 
him to have a council of war. I have seen him ride up to a Regi- 
ment he never saw before, and commence, "Why in the Blank, 
Blanknation, don't you turn out and present arms when you see the 
General of the army coming." And when they were ready to 
listen to him in mute astonishment, he would ride away for 
some one else to blow up. One day while he was tying the 
mule to the breastworks, I picked up an old wagon wheel, which 
was lying near camp and called to him to look out as I intended to 
roll it against the mule and make him kick. "Blank, blanknation 
to you," says Blain, "if you do I will thrash you within an inch 
of your life. I will not leave enough of you to fry a hard tack 
with." And there was much more of the same sort coming ; but 
the impulse to roll the wheel was too great, and roll it I did 
before Blain got away from the mule. It began to kick before 
the wheel reached it. Kicked both feet through the spokes of 
the wheel, fell down and got up kicking. All the men in the 
Regiment who saw it, roaring and laughing, and in the midst 
of it, Blain's profanity could be heard. I did not stay to see the 
wind up of it, but concluded to go and visit the boys in the 21st 
Pennsylvania Cavalry, with whom I was acquainted and let 
Blain cool off. When I came back he was in a good humor and 
soon forgave me. 



2l8 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Late in the Fall our Regiment was ordered to Philadelphia. 
We started for City Point, Plain and the mule bringing up the 
rear. At City Point we were to take a steamboat for Washing- 
ton and the question came up what to do with the mule, but Plain 
soon settled that. He took it to a sutler and traded it for a 
watermelon. He deliberately sat down in the midst of the whole 
Company and ate all of it. I think every man in the Company 
asked him for a piece, but invariably got the same answer: "Not 
enough to divide ; go to thunder and get your own watermelon." 

The next day as we lay idly on the deck of the steamboat, 
crossing the Cheapeake Pay, Plain unbuckled an old army spur 
from his heel and turning to me said, "Say, Milner, do you want 
this spur to remember the old mule by? Golly, that was a good 
watermelon!" We call him "Old Plain" now. His once jet 
black beard is turning gray, and he still will use "untheological" 
language on slight provocation, and I still have the spur to re- 
member the old mule. 




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CHAPTER XXII. 



A Complete Roster oe the Officers of the 187TH Regiment, 
P. V. I. 

Name. Date of Rank. 

Colonel John S. Schultze, April i, 1864 

Colonel John E. Parsons, May 6, 1865 

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph F. Ramsey, July 9, 1863 

Lieutenant Colonel John E. Parsons, January 27, 1865 

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph A. Ege, May 6, 1865 

Major George W. Merrick, February 28, 1864 

Major David Z. Seip, May 6, 1865 

Adjutant Thomas E. Little, July 9, 1863 

Adjutant Jerome W. Henry, May 12, 1864 

Quartermaster Matthew McCall, January 27, 1864, 

Surgeon James P. Wilson, April 14, 1864, 

Surgeon John C. Fruit, July 19, 1864. 

Assistant Surgeon Joshua R. Hays, July 24, 1863 

Assistant Surgeon W. W. Webb, April 15, 1864, 

Assistant Surgeon Theodore Jacobs, October 27, 1864, 

Assistant Surgeon James T. Mahon, January 4, 1865 

Company A. 

Captain George W. Merrick, 2^Iarch 18, 1864. 

Captain Morgaist Hart, March 22, 1864. 

Captain Robert Young, May 10. 1865. 

First Lieutenant Robert Young, February 18, 1864. 

First Lieutenant Timothy B. Culver, March 10. 1865. 

Second Lieutenant Gerauld Dennison, April 13, 1864. 

Second Lieutenant Timothy B. Culver,. .September 3. 1864. 
Second Lieutenant William A. Stone, March 10. 1865. 



220 history of 187th regiment 

Company B. 

Captain David Z. Seip, January 27, 1864. 

Captain Samuel I. Adams, May 10, 1865, 

First Lieutenant Samuel I. Adams, January 27, 1864. 

First Lieutenant William V. Torbert, May 10, 1865. 

Second Lieutenant Jonathan J. Jessup,. .January 2"], 1864. 

Second Lieutenant William V. Torbert, . .September 7, 1864. 

Second Lieutenant Samuel C. Ilgenfritz, . . . .May i, 1865. 

Company C. 

Captain William Young, July 9, 1863. 

First Lieutenant Orville D. Harder, July 9, 1863. 

Second Lieutenant James E. Johnson, April 12, 1864. 

Company D. 

Captain Joseph A. Ege, July 13, 1863. 

Captain John E. Frymire, May i, 1865. 

First Lieutenant John E. Frymire, February 4, 1864. 

First Lieutenant John S. Gore, May i, 1865. 

Second Lieutenant John S. Gore, February 7, 1864. 

Second Lieutenant Frank Best, May i, 1865. 

Company E. 

Captain Charles A. Thomas, January 27, 1864, 

Captain Frederick B. Argue, April 18, 1865 

First Lieutenant Henry V. Christy, January 27, 1864 

First Lieutenant Frederick V. Argue, July 26, 1864 

First Lieutenant James SlEmner, April 18, 1865 

Second Lieutenant Frederick B. Argue, . .January 27, 1864 

Second Lieutenant James Slemner, July 26, 1864 

Second Lieutenant Edward Steel, April 18, 1865 

Company F. 

Captain William Barr, August 4, 1863. 

Captain John E. Reilly, September 7, 1864. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 221 

First Lieutenant John E. Reilly, July 9, 1863. 

First Lieutenant Samuel B, McCahen,. .September 7, 1864. 

First Lieutenant Paul E. Cowper, June 6, 1865. 

Second Lieutenant Abraham J. Rupp, May 17, 1864. 

Second Lieutenant Paul E. Cowper, .... September 7, 1864. 
Second Lieutenant Gideon W. Myers, June 6, 1865. 

Company G. 

Captain W. Henrie Carlin, April 8, 1864. 

First Lieutenant Frank J. Deemer, April 8, 1864. 

Second Lieutenant Miles M. Bradford, April 8, 1864. 

Company H. 

Captain C. Wesley Mutchler, April 13, 1864. 

First Lieutenant Lucius H. Olmstead, April 13, 1864. 

First Lieutenant Charles H. Furestine, May 6, 1865. 

Second Lieutenant Daniel Keller, April 13, 1864. 

Second Lieutenant Charles H. Furestine,. .March i, 1865. 

Second Lieutenant Porter Squires, May 6, 1865. 

Company L 

Captain Thomas E. Little, April 11, 1864. 

Captain Ransford B. Webb, September 24, 1864. 

First Lieutenant Silas B. Carmer, April 11, 1864. 

First Lieutenant Monroe P. Crosby,. . , .September 24, 1864, 

Second Lieutenant Ransford B. Webb, April 11, 1864. 

Second Lieutenant Harry L Zinn, February 24, 1865. 

Company K. 

Captain George G. Lovett, April 12, 1864. 

First Lieutenant Alexander Blackburn, ... .April 12. 1864. 

Second Lieutenant Walter Lackey, April 12, 1864. 

Second Lieutenant George L. Walker,. .December 19, 1864. 



2.22 HISTORY OP iS/TH REGIMENT 

Roll of Members of the iS/th Regiment, P. V. I., Living 

Thirty-nine Years From the Date of Discharge, 

August 3, 1865. 

Field and Staff. 

Colonel John E. Parsons, Toledo, Ohio. 

Major George W. Merrick, Wellsboro, Pa. 

Major David Z. Slip, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Quartermaster Matthew McCall, York, Pa. 

Assistant Surgeon Theodore Jacobs, Norristown, Pa. 

Sergeant Major Douglas H. Jay, Scranton, Pa. 

Company A. 

Captain Robert Young, Troy, Pa. 

Lieutenant Timothy B. Culv^Er, Round Top, Pa. 

Lieutenant William A. Stone, Pittsburg, Pa, 

Corporal E. A. Cariel, Cuthage, Iowa. 

Corporal James W. Hancock, Westfield, Pa. 

Corporal John W. English, Wellsboro, Pa. 

Corporal Henry M. Foot, Washington, D. C. 

Musician Henry HipplE, Fresno, Cal. 

Privates. 

Philander Bockus, Wellsboro, Pa. 

William Bliss, Round Top, Pa. 

John L. Boatman, Stony Fork, Pa. 

Norman Bellinger, Wellsboro, Pa. 

William J. Bell, Lenox, Pa. 

John Carpenter, Round Top, Pa. 

James Donovan, George, Lyons Co., Iowa. 

William E. Dales, Balsam, Pa. 

Robert Frances, Kennedy, Pa. 

JuDSON J. Hall, East Charleston, Pa. 

Edward HanvillE, Chemung Center, N. Y. 

John Jackson, Wellsboro, Pa. 

William Kriner, Wellsboro, Pa. 

Hugh McGrogan, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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Andrew J. Putnam, Stony Fork, Pa. 

Henry C. Root, Topeka, Kans. 

Daniel W. RugglES, Gains, Pa. 

Wesley Saxbury, Wellsboro, Pa. 

Clifton Tipple, Wellsboro, Pa. 

Samuel W. Trull, Blossburg, Pa. 

Daniel W. Wilson, Wellsboro, Pa. 

Samuel T. Wilcox, Stony Fork, Pa. 

Frances M. Mullins, Marinette, Wis. 

Denison Jerold, Wellsboro, Pa. 

Otis L. Atherton, Topeka, Kans. 

John E. Henry, Wellsboro, Pa. 

S. S. Steel, Turtle Point, Pa. 

Wilis J. Peak, Dubois, Neb., R. F. D. No. 2. 

Company B. 

Lieutenant Jonathan J. Jessup, York, Pa. 

Sergeant Thomas J. Rupert, Baltimore, Md. 

Corporal George K. Grove, New Cumberland, Pa. 

Corporal John J. Hess, Harrisburg-, Pa. 

Musician Cornelius Amick, York Co., Pa. 

Privates. 

Henry Gable, York, Pa. 

W. H. Nauss, R. F. D., No. 4, Mechanicsburg, Pa. 

Andrew Anderson, Bryansville, Pa. 

Jacob Crone, Etters, Pa. 

Charles Lehman, Nat. S. and S. Home, Dayton, Ohio. 

Henry Gilbert, Craleysville, Pa. 

H. H. Sprenkle, Lisburn, Pa. 

Otto Steininger, York, Pa. 

Samuel Armpriester, York, Pa. 

George Berkheimer, York, Pa. 

J. K. P. Fulton, York, Pa. 

J. F. Heidler, York, Pa. 

0. H. Lloyd York. Pa. 



224 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

M. B. Reynolds, Gatshalville, Pa, 

WiuAM H. Hamilton, Gatshalville, Pa. 

John Campbell, Red Lyon, York Co., Pa. 

William Blain, Fawn Grove, York Co., Pa. 

Company C. 

Captain William Young, Washington, Pa. 

Sergeant Seth K. SharplEss, Larimer, Kansas. 

Corporal Hugh P. Libhart, Newton, Kansas. 

Corporal William E. Moher, Muncy, Pa. 

Musician James B. Forrest, Lewisburg, Pa, 

Musician Charles P. Harder, Danville, Pa. 

Privates. 

Arthur F. Alward, Bellwood, Pa. 

Benton B. Brown, Danville, Pa. 

John R. Beatty, Danville, Pa. 

Charles S. Beaver, Jacksonville, Florida. 

Nelson B. Case, Havre-de-Grace, Md. 

John C. Devine, Johnstown, Pa. 

James S. Easton, New Lenox, 111. 

Charles R. Funston, Laporte, Pa. 

OsMAN Furhman, Independence, Ohio. 

Joseph L. Frame, Danville, Pa. 

James H. Gibbons, Northumberland, Pa. 

James M. Gibes, Harrisburg, Pa. 

William F. Hullihen, Danville, Pa. 

John Ickus, Danville, Pa. 

George W. Jackson, Danville, Pa. 

Thomas P. Morgan, Jersey Shore, Pa. 

Oscar G. Mellin, Danville, Pa. 

William Nash, Mitchell, S. D. 

Irvin T. Patton, Danville, Pa. 

Peter M. Reed, Genoa, 111. 

John E. Roberts, Danville, Pa. 

Warren M. Ridgway, Washington, Pa. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 22$ 

John J. Roderick, Canal Dover, Ohio. 

Jacob Slack, Danville, Pa. 

John SechlER. Danville Pa. 

Isaac Snell, New York. 

John Wertman, Danville, Pa. 

Elijah Wertman, Danville, Pa. 

James D. Ware, Pullman, 111. 

John H. Wallace, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Company D. 

Captain John E. FrymirE, Lumberton, N. J. 

Sergeant William D. Ritner, Washington, D. C. 

Sergeant R. K. Alllison, York, Pa. 

Corporal Samuel Bricker, Washington, D. C. 

Corporal John C. Thompson,. . .Trenton, Hitchcock Co., Neb. 

Corporal H. A. Cobaugh, Washington, D. C. 

Corporal Henry C. Shearer, New Bloomfield, Pa. 

Corporal William O. Trego, Milton, Pa. 

Musician Francis M. Stoke, Hoguestown, Pa. 

Musician Aug. G. Kyle, Newville, Pa. 

Privates. 

Samuel H. C. BixlER, Greencastle, Pa. 

Andrew BixlER, Colorado Springs, Colo. 

William H. Burtnett, Landisburg, Pa. 

Edward V. Caldwell, Philadelphia, Pa. 

John M. Faughender, Harrisburg, Pa. 

William H. Faughender, . . . .Grandview, Douglas Co., S. D. 
Jonathan E. FerrEe, Newville, Pa. 

Benjamin Henry, Newville, Pa. 

Abraham Henry, Newville, Pa. 

William R. Householder, Washington, D. C. 

Alex. Kennedy, BloserviUe, Pa. 

Daniel H. McLaughlin, Newville, Pa. 

Robert M. McKeehan, Blount Rock, Pa. 

William Morris, Landisburg. Pa. 



226 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

William I. North, Newville, Pa. 

Frederick K, Ployer, Mechanicsburg, Pa. 

David G. Reinhart, Big Springs, Pa. 

Wilson Smith, Smithville, Pa. 

Levi Staver, Newville, Pa. 

William H. W. Umholtz, Landisburg, Pa. 

Henry A. Wolf, Greason, Pa. 

Seibert McCrEa, Harrisburg, Pa. 

Company E. 

Sergeant Salen C. Krisher, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Corporal William Stewart, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Privates. 

Phil. S. Mager, Philadelphia, Pa. 

James Dunn, Philadelphia, Pa. 

William Rumford, Norristown, Pa. 

H. B. Wilkinson, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Samuel Horn, Burlington, N. J. 

William Naylor, Asbury Park, N. J. 

C. Schriver, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Thomas Laughlin, Stewart, Iowa. 

Benjamin F. Krisher, R. F. D., Dayton, Ohio. 



Company F. 

Captain John E. Reilly, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Corporal Eugene Lenhart, Berwick, Pa 

Privates. 

John W. Everhart, Steelton, Pa. 

William C. Purcell, Williamsport, Pa. 

Lewis Rodenhoffer, Buffalo, N. Y. 

J. Frank Snow, Philadelphia, Pa. 

George Sneer, S. and S. Home, Hampton, Va. 

Philip Saxek, Philadelphia, Pa. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 227 

Company G. 

Lieutenant Frank J. DeemER, Wilkesbarre, Pa. 

Sergeant Albert Simson, Bradford, Pa. 

Sergeant John S. Jenkins, Pittston, Pa. 

Corporal Levi Benett, Waymart, Pa. 

Corporal David W. CopELAND, Blue Springs, Kansas. 

Corporal William Webber, Avoca, Pa. 

Corporal William C. DailEy, West Nanticoke, Pa. 

Corporal John Z. Jones, Scranton, Pa. 

Corporal Frank Stanton, Duryea, Pa. 

Corporal Albert Hatton, Binghamton, N. Y. 

Musician James W. Whitman, Lindaville, Pa. 

Musician Charles HimES, Pittston, Pa. 

Pr'wates. 

Amos. H. Adams, Chinchilla, Pa. 

Joseph Bennett, Waymart, Pa. 

David W. CopELAND, Blue Springs, Neb. 

Andrew J. Clark, Scranton, Pa. 

William M. Clark, Forrest City, Pa. 

Seth a. Cobb, Factoryville, Pa. 

Lafayette Davis, Athens, Kansas. 

Moses Davis, Moscow, Pa. 

A. D. Dimmick, Onento, N. Y. 

Elias Decker, Gulf Summit, N. Y. 

Henry Fisk, Nicholson, Pa. 

John Feltz, Wyoming, Pa. 

Martin V. Kennedy, Glenwood, Pa. 

John LaFrance, Scranton, Pa. 

Sidney Miller, Scranton, Pa. 

Henry W. Miller, Keewanee, 111. 

George Makely, ^ladisonville, Pa. 

Stephen Mooney, Scranton, Pa. 

Cyrus D. Millard, Nicholson, Pa. 

Byron McDonald, Glenwood, Pa. 

Minor Naugle, Esp>'' ^^- 



228 HISTORY OF iSjTH REGIMENT 

Francis W. Payne, .Hopbottom, Pa. 

Norman D. Reiber, West Nicholson, Pa. 

John Kendrew, Phillipsburg, Kansas. 

Perry Rosengrant, Glenwood, Pa. 

WihUAM R. Sarfer, Frytovvn, Pa. 

Thomas M. Stewart, Scranton, Pa. 

B. P. Sears, Peckville, Pa. 

Peter Single, Dunmore, Pa. 

Milton Taylor, Peckville, Pa. 

David R. Looker, Merrill, Iowa. 

Michael Walters, Halstead, Pa. 

John W. White, • . . Wisner, Nebraska. 

George Yarrington, East Carbondale, Pa. 

Company H. 

Captain Charles W. MutchlEr, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 

Lieutenant Charles F. Feurestine, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 

Lieutenant Daniel Keller,. .Nat. S. and S. Home, Dayton, O. 

Corporal O. E. Reynolds, West Nicholson, Pa. 

Musician Thomas B. McCord, Harrisburg, Pa. 

Privates. 

Samuel L. IrELEy, Middletown, Pa. 

Benjamin HipplE, Harrisburg, Pa. 

E. B. Whitney, Hopbottom, Pa. 

RuEus Conrade, Glenwood, Pa. 

John Allan, Susquehanna, Pa. 

George Nichols, Nicholson, Pa. 

George W. Canterbery, Scranton, Pa. 

A, G. Reynolds, West Nicholson, Pa. 

John Woy, Johnstown, Pa. 

W. N. Reynolds, Tunkhannock, Pa. 

John BerkEy, Johnstown, Pa. 

Henry Lehman, Hooversville, Pa. 

Charles Shank, Shanksville, Pa. 

John Ream, Shanksville, Pa. 




I FRANK SNOW AND GEORGE }>;-_^^EER^ 

SERGT. GIDEON W. MYERS AND CORP EL GENE LENH ART. 

FR\NK SNOW. 4 CORP. EUGENE LENHART 

rUGENE LENHART. COMPANY F, AND ISAAC SM-.I.L. 

COMPANY C. 



CORP. EUGEN] 




1 CAl'T. W. IIKXRV LAKI.IX. j 1.1 KIT. KKAXK 1. I )|:i-:M I.R, 
CAPTAIX CARIJX. LIKUTKXAXT DEEMER. 



COMPANY G. 




I SEkclT. (;KuR(;K A. WALCOTT. 2 SKR(/r. STKl'lIKX M. WHITBECK. 

3 SERGT. JOHN S. JENKINS. 4 CORP. JOHN MONTGOMERY. 

5 JOHN W. WHITE. 6 JOHN S. JENKINS. 

COMPANY G. 




I MIXER XAUGLE. COMPANY G. 
2 THOMAS B. McCORD, COMPANY H. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 233 

ROMANUS Baldwin, Shanksville, Pa. 

Frank Finnecy, Shanksville, Pa. 

Herman Lape, Berlin, Pa. 



Company I. 

Captain Ransford B. Webb, Wellsboro, Pa. 

Sergeant Merritt J. Cole, Windham, Pa. 

Sergeant George W. Rice, St. Paul, Min. 

■Corporal Benjamin F. McKinney, Sayer, Pa. 

Corporal Melvin R. Heath, Athens, Pa. 

Corporal Spencer Crittenden, Wellsboro, Pa. 

Corporal Albert F. Packard, Cleveland, Ohio. 

Priz'ates. 

Aaron M. Landis, Harrisburg, Pa. 

Jacob Kohler, Bowmansdale, Pa. 

J. P. Deckard, S. and S. Home, Erie, Pa. 

George W. Dimmick, Ansonia, Pa. 

William T, Walker, Oakville, Pa. 

Oscar F. Grady, Garfield, Kansas. 

George W. Giger, IMahanoy City, Pa. 

Lewis Hassee, IMahanoy City, Pa. 

OvvAN Mauk, Allentown, Pa. 

Thomas L. Carmer, Athens, Pa. 

Cornelius Harsh, Waverly, N. Y. 

William W. Miller, Xorth Rome, Pa. 

Thomas Layton, Ulster, Pa. 

William Brown, Athens, Pa. 

Andrew Vansice, Athens, Pa. 

N. X. Merrill, Chathams Run, Pa. 

W. H. H. Lewis, Nat. S. and S. Home, Dayton, Ohio. 

Robert M. BoylES, Harrisburg, Pa. 

A. B. Forrest, Raleigh, X. C. 



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234 history of 187th regiment 

Company K. 

Captain George G. Lovett^ Danville, Pa. 

Lieutenant George S. Walker, Tioga, Pa. 

Sergeant Samuee Hook, Altoona, Pa. 

Sergeant George Doan, Elmira, N. Y. 

Sergeant Isaac B. Bowser, Pa. S. and S. Home, Erie, Pa. 

Corporal Philip German, Mountdale, Pa. 

Corporal Jay Whitehead, Canton, Pa. 

Corporal Dewitt C. Johnson, Lock Haven, Pa. 

Musician Samuel Lowry, Lock Haven, Pa. 

Privates. 

B. F. Myers, Mountaindale, Pa. 

Z. T. Baltzer, Harrisburg, Pa. 

John W, Minnick, Dillsville, Pa. 

Cornelius Rhoads, Duncannon, Pa. 

Jacob Pitman, Montrose, Pa. 

Webster Spencer, Grover, Pa. 

Charles Himes, Scranton, Pa. 

Joe HollEN, Mountaindale, Pa. 

Emanuel Louden, Mountaindale, Pa. 

Adam Garman, Blandburg, Pa. 

George Graffes, Williamsport, Pa. 

Joseph O'Brien, Fostoria, Iowa. 

John Weaver, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Edward Doan, Mansfield, Pa. 

Jeremiah Austin, Ogdenburg, Pa. 

William Garrison, Albert, Pa. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 235 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



Roster 187TH Regiment, P. V. I. 

FIELD AND STAFF OFFICERS. 

John E. Parsons— Colonel ; August 30, 1862; promoted from 
Captain and Assistant Adjutant General, Volunteers, to 
Lieutenant Colonel, January 31, 1865; to Colonel, May 
12, 1865 ; residing at Toledo, Ohio. 

Joseph F. Ramsey— Lieutenant Colonel; June 22, 1863; dis- 
charged September 29, 1864; dead. 

Joseph A. Ege— Lieutenant Colonel; February 26, 1864; pro- 
moted from Captain, Company D, June 18, 1865 ; mustered 
out with Regiment, August 3, 1865; dead. 

George W. Merrick— Major ; March 18, 1864; promoted front 
Captain, Company A, May 12, 1864; discharged Septem- 
ber 26th, for wound, with loss of leg, received at Peters- 
burg, June 18, 1864; residing at Wellsboro, Pa. 

David Z. Seip — Major; January 2"], 1864; promoted from Cap- 
tain, Company B, June 24, 1865 ; mustered out with Regi- 
ment, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Philadelphia, Pa. 

Thomas E. Little— Adjutant; July 9, 1863; promoted to Cap- 
tain, Company I, May 11, 1864. 

Jerome W. Henry— Adjutant; May 12, 1864; mustered out with 
Regiment, August 3, 1865. 

Matthew H. McCall— Quartermaster ; January 2-], 1864; pro- 
moted from First Lieutenant, Company B, March 18, 1864; 
mustered out with Regiment, August 3, 1865 ; residing at 
York, Pa. 

James P. Wilson— Surgeon ; April 14, 1864; died at Harrisburg, 
Pa., July 5, 1864. 

John C. Fruit— Surgeon ; July 19, 1864; mustered out with 
Regiment, August 3, 1865; dead. 



236 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Joshua R. Hays — Assistant Surgeon ; July 24, 1863 ; discharged 
by special order, September 23, 1864. 

W. W. Webb — Assistant Surgeon; April 15, 1864; discharged 
by special order, October 5, 1864. 

Theodore Jacobs — Assistant Surgeon; October 27, 1864; 
mustered out with Regiment, August 3, 1865 ; residing at 
Norristown, Pa. 

James T. Mahon — Assistant Surgeon ; January 4, 1865 ; 
mustered out with Regiment, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

William E. Zinn — Sergeant Major; February 10, 1864; pro- 
, moted from Sergeant, Company D, May 11, 1864, to Sec- 

ond Lieutenant, Company I, March 29, 1865 ; died 1904. 

Douglas H. Jay — Sergeant Major; April 7, 1864; promoted from 
private, Company G, May i, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865; residing at Scranton, Pa. 

Frank Smith — Quartermaster Sergeant; May 7, 1864; pro- 
moted from private, Company H, May ii, 1864; mustered 
out with Company, August 3, 1865. 

Henry M. Wilson — Commissary Sergeant; January 26, 1864; 
promoted from private, Company B, date unknown; 
mustered out with Company, August 3, 1865. 

George W. Kennedy — Hospital Sergeant; January 5, 1864; pro- 
moted from Sergeant, Company E, date unknown; 
mustered out with Company, August 3, 1865 5 dead. 

Philip W. Richards — Principal Musician; January 15, 1864; 
transferred to Company E, January i, 1865. 

Company A. 

George W. Merrick — Captain; March 18, 1864; promoted to 
Major, May 12, 1864. 

Morgan Hart — Captain; March 22, 1864; promoted from Sec- 
ond Lieutenant, May 11, 1864; discharged May 9, 1865; 
dead. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 237 

Robert Young — Captain; March 22; 1864; promoted from First 
Lieutenant, July 18, 1865; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; residing at Troy, Bradford Co., Pa. 

Gerould Dennison — Second Lieutenant; May 11, 1864; dis- 
charged by special orders, September 4, 1864; residing at 
Wellsboro, Pa. 

Timothy B, Culver — Second Lieutenant; February 10, 1864; 
promoted from First Sergeant, April 14, 1865 ; commis- 
sioned First Sergeant, March 10, 1865; not mustered; 
mustered out with Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at 
Round Top, Tioga Co., Pa. 

William A. Stone — First Sergeant; February 25, 1864; pro- 
moted from Sergeant, April 14, 1865 ; commissioned Sec- 
ond Lieutenant March 10, 1865; not mustered; mustered 
out with Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Pitts- 
burg, Pa. 

David P. Dewey — Sergeant ; February 25, 1864 ; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865, Vet. 

David Bricker — Sergeant; January 29, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

OrvillE Henry — Sergeant; February 25, 1864; promoted from 
Corporal, April i, 1865; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Eugene CoolEdge — Sergeant; February 25, 1864; promoted 
from Corporal, April i, 1865; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Charles Siiumway — Sergeant; February 25, 1864; died at City 
Point, Va., August 2^, 1864; buried in National Cemetery. 

Henry C. Wilson — Corporal; February 25, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865. 

Edmund A. Cariel — Corporal; February 25, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865; residing at Cuthage, 
Harding Co., Iowa. 



238 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

ChauncEy Dimmick — Corporal; April 6, 1864; promoted to 
Corporal, April i, 1865; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865. 

Jas. W. Hancock — Corporal; April 6, 1864; promoted to Cor- 
poral, April I, 1865 ; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865 ; residing at Westfield, Pa. 

John W. Engeish — Corporal; February 6, 1864; promoted to 
Corporal, April i, 1865; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865 ; residing at Wellsboro, Pa. 

Henry M. Foot — Corporal; February 25, 1864; promoted to 
Corporal, April i, 1865; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Washington, D. C. 

Samuel D. Frances — Corporal; February 25, 1864; promoted to 
Corporal, April i, 1865 ; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865. 

Albert Ires — Corporal; February 25, 1864; died June 19th, of 
wounds, received at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864; 
buried in National Cemetery. 

James Hess — Musician; March 25, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Henry HipplE — Musician; April i, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Fresno, Cal. 

Prk'atcs. 

Ayres, Robert J. — April 8, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Anderson, George — January 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

AthERSON, Otis L. — February 25, 1864; discharged on Sur- 
geon's Certificate, June 6, 1865 ; residing at Topeka, Kans. 

Ash, John — January 26, 1864; transferred to 86th Com., Sec- 
ond Battery, V. R. C. ; discharged by general order Sep- 
tember 23, 1865. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 239 

AylESWORTh, JoHN-March 31- 1864; killed at Petersburg, Va., 

June 18, 1864. 
Baker, Hiram— November 4, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 
Butler, ALMON-February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 
Butler, LEROY-February 25. 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 
BoCKUS, CHARLES-February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 
BocKUS, PHiLANDER-February 25, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865; residing at Wellsboro, Tioga 
Co., Pa. 
Bliss, WiLUAM-February 25, 1865; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Round Top, Tioga 
Co., Pa. 
Brewster, Joseph W.-February 25, 1864; mustered out with 

Company August 3, 1865. 
Borden, ALONZO-February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 
Borden, BELA-February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 
Beotsman, John L.-February 25, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Stony Fork, Tioga 
Co., Pa., 
Bellinger, NoRMAN-February 25, 1864; mustered out with 

Company, August 3, 1865; residing at Wellsboro. Pa. 
Bell, William J.-May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Lenox, Susquehanna Co.. Fa. 
BowEN, William G.-January 25. 1864; discharged on Sur- 
geon's Certificate, June 23, 1865. 
Boatman, Leonard W.-February 25, 1864; killed at Peters- 
burg, Va., June 22, 1864: buried in Poplar Grove. National 
Cemetery, division C, section D, grave 124. 



240 HISTORY OF 187TII REGIMENT 

Carpenter, John — February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Round Top, Tioga 
Co.,' Pa. 

Crow, Zenas F. — February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Caldwell, John R. — January 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Cunningham, G. B. — January 25, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Chestnut, William — May 4, 1864; transferred to Company K, 
May 10, 1864. 

Catlin, Delane — February 25, 1864; died at City Point, Va., 
July 3, 1864, of wounds received June 18, 1864. 

Chase, William — February 25, 1864; died at Harrisburg, Pa., 
July 4, 1864. 

Clark, Samuel — January 25, 1864; killed at Petersburg, Va., 
June 18, 1864. 

DoRT, Harris — February 25, 1864; discharged by general order, 
June 28, 1865; died, 1904. 

Dartt, Henry H. — February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Daily, Orlando E. — February 25, 1864; absent, sick, at muster 
out. 

Donovan, James — February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at George, Lyons Co., la. 

Dales, William E. — February 25, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Balsam, Pa. 

Dort, Cyrus — February 25, 1864; died at City Point, Va., July 
3, 1864, of wounds received in action, June 18, 1864. 

Eden, Robert — January 26, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Everett, Thomas — April 8, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 24I 

Fields, Delvas — April 6, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Frances, Robert — February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Kennedy, Tioga Co., Pa. 

Fry, Richard — February 25, 1864; prisoner from August 19, 
1864, to March 8, 1865; discharged by general order, June 
6. 1865. 

Frece, George — February 25, 1864; transferred to Veteran Re- 
serve Corps, 1864. 

Frost, Ashabel — February 25, 1864; died at Philadelphia, Pa., 
September 12, 1864, of wounds received in action. 

Gwinn, George W. — March 9, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

GoDDEN, Thomas — February 25, 1864; died at Philadelphia, Pa., 
August 25, 1864. 

Green, Andrew — January 25, 1864; died at Philadelphia, Pa., 
July 9, 1864. 

Goodwin, Benj. F. — ]\Iay 12, 1864; died at Philadelphia, Pa., 
April 6, 1865. 

Henry, Richard — February 27, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Hall, Judson J. — February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865; residing at East Charleston, Tioga 
Co., Pa. 

Hanville, Edward — February 25, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Chemung Center, 
N. Y. 

Henry, John E. — April 6, 1864; discharged by general order, 
May 15, 1865 ; residing at Wellsboro, Pa. 

HowER, Charles P. — April 4, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's 

Certificate, 1864. 
Hampton, William — April 25, 1864; transferred to Army of 

Northwest, August 9, 1864. 



242 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Hall, Henry F, — April 25, 1864; transferred to Army of North- 
west,. August 9, 1864. 

Hedwick, Stephen — April 25, 1864; transferred to Army of 
Northwest, August 9, 1864. 

Jackson, John — February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Wellsboro, Pa. 

Kimball, George — February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Kriner, William — April 6, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Wellsboro, Pa. 

Lester, Thomas — February 25, 1864; mustered out wath Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Lyon, Abram — February 25, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

La\vTon, Edward O. — February 25, 1864; died at Philadelphia, 
Pa., November 29, 1864. 

MosiER, Charles W. — February 27, 1864; mustered out with 
Company August 3, 1865. 

Morrow, Richard — January 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

MeembowER, Joseph — ^January 25, 1864; mustered out with 
Company August 3, 1865. 

MooRE, Charles N. — February 25, 1864; mustered out with 
Company August 3, 1865. 

Mack, Alonzo C. — February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Mullin, Frances — April 25, 1864; transferred to Army of 
Northwest, August 9, 1864; residing at Marinette, Wis. 

Mann, John — February 25, 1864; died at City Point, Va., 
August 9, 1864. 

Morton, John D. — January 18, 1864; died at Philadelphia, Pa., 
August 25, 1864, of wounds received in action. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 243 

M'Grogan, Hugh H.— March 21, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Philadelphia, Pa. 
M'GuiRE, John— January 21, 1864: died at Washington, D. C, 
June 8, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. 
Newfer, John— April 6, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865; died January 11, 1904- 
ObERUE, William— January 18, 1864; killed at Petersburg, Va., 
June 18, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, City Pomt, 
Va., section D, division i, grave 145. 
Putman, Andrew J.— March 22, 1864 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Stony Fork, Tioga Co., 
Pa. 
Peak, Willis J.— April 6, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
' August 3, 1865 ; residing at Dubois, Neb., R. F. D. No. 2. 
Potter, Lyman P.— February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 
Potter, Charles J.-February 25, 1864; died at Harrisburg, Pa., 

March 26, 1864. 
Phipps, JAMES-February 25, 1864; died July 11, 1864; buried in 

National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. 
RuGGLES, Daniel W.— February 25. 1864; mustered out with 

Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Gaines, Pa. 
Root, Henry C— February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Topeka, Kan. 
RouGHT, Daniel— March 31, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 
Steel, Robert H.— February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany. August 3, 1865. 
Steel, Samuel S.-March 30, 1864: mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Turtle Pomt. Pa. 
Smith, ELWARiAN-February 25. 1864; discharged by special 
order, August 2, 1865. 



244 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Smith, Ephraim N. — February 25, 1864; mustered out with 
Company August 3, 1865. 

Shelman, Riley W. — February 25, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Saxburry, Wesley — February 25, 1864; discharged by special 
order August 9, 1865 ; residing at Wellsboro, Pa. 

Stratton, Horace S. — February 25, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Starkweather, N. J. — February 27, 1864; discharged by general 
order. May 26, 1865. 

Seisen, James — July 18, 1864; drafted; discharged by special 
order, May 5, 1865. 

Stulker, Thomas — September 20, 1864; drafted; discharged by 
special order, May 5, 1865. 

Simpson, Samuel — May 4, 1864; transferred to Company K, 
May 10, 1864. 

Sturrock, William — February 25, 1864; died at New York, 
August 21, 1864; buried in Cypress Hill Cemetery, L. I. 

Stark, Oliver — March 31, 1864; died October 2'], 1864. 

Swerger, Nicholas — May 4, 1864; died July 21, 1864, of 
wounds received in action. 

Tipple, Clifton — February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany August 3, 1865 ; residing at Wellsboro, Pa. 

ToRPY, Augustine S. — February 25, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Trull, Samuel W. — February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865; residing at Blossburg, Pa. 

Travis, John J. — March 31, 1864; killed at Petersburg, Va., June 
18, 1864. 

Wilson, Daniel M. — February 25, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Wellsboro, Pa. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 245 

Wilcox, Samuel P.— March 22, 1864 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Stony Fork, Tioga Co., 
Pa. 

Wilcox, Martin C— March 31, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Wheeler, Samuel— April 8, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

WhETmorE, Philip — April 6, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Wilkinson, James— February 25, 1864; discharged by special 
order, January 14, 1865. 

Wells, James J.— August 30, 1864; discharged by special order, 
January 6, 1865. 

Company B, 

David Z. Seip— Captain ; January 27, 1864; promoted to Major, 

June 25, 1865 ; residing at Philadelphia, Pa. 
Samuel J. Adams— First Lieutenant; January 27, 1864; pro- 
moted from Second Lieutenant, March 18, 1864; com- 
missioned Captain, May i, 1865; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865; dead. 
Matthew H. McCall— First Lieutenant; January 27, 1864; 

promoted to Quartermaster, March 18, 1864; York, Pa. 
William W. Torbert— Second Lieutenant; October i, 1864; 
promoted from First Sergeant, October i, 1864; commis- 
sioned First Lieutenant, May i, 1865; not mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
Jonathan J. Jessup— Second Lieutenant; January 20, 1864; 
promoted from First Sergeant, March 18, 1864; dis- 
charged August 7, for wounds, with loss of leg. received 
at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864; residing at York. Pa. 
Samuel C. Ilgen fritz— First Sergeant; January 25. 1864; pro- 
moted to Sergeant, April 8, 1864; to First Sergeant, 



246 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIME:nT 

October i, 1864; commissioned Second Lieutenant, May 
I, 1865; not mustered; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; Veteran; dead. 

Daniel Keller — First Sergeant; January 20, 1864; promoted 
to Second Lieutenant Company H, March 11, 1864; at 
National Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Dayton, Ohio. 

Thomas Rupert — Sergeant; January 20, 1864; promoted to Ser- 
geant, January 17, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Baltimore, Md. 

JosEPHUS Burger — Sergeant; January 20, 1864; promoted to 
Sergeant, May i, 1865; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Henry Wagner — Sergeant; January 20, 1864; promoted to Ser- 
geant, October i, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Charles Horn — Sergeant; February 2, 1864; promoted to Ser- 
geant, December i, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; dead. 

Samuel Keeper — Sergeant; January 20, 1864; died at York, Pa., 
April 15, 1864. 

Thomas H. Brooks — Corporal; January 20, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran ; dead. 

George K. Grove — Corporal; January 20, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865; residing at New Cum- 
berland, Pa. 

Henry M. Kister — Corporal; January 21, 1864; promoted to 
Corporal, April i, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Philadelphia, Pa. 

Lewis H. Milner — Corporal; January 20, 1864; promoted to 
Corporal, May i, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

John J. Hess — Corporal; January 28, 1864; promoted to Cor- 
poral, November i, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; residing at Harrisburg, Pa. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 247 

Nathan B. Wails — Corporal; January 20, 1864; promoted to 
Corporal, December i, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; Veteran ; dead. 

Thaddeus Fry — Corporal; January 20, 1864; promoted to Cor- 
poral, December i, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

William Boyer — Corporal; January 20, 1864; promoted to Cor- 
poral, December i, 1864; mustered out with Company; 
August 3, 1865. 

John Shillinberg — Corporal; January 20, 1864; killed at Wel- 
don Railroad, August 20, 1864; buried in Poplar Grove 
National Cemetery, Petersburg, Va. 

Cornelius Amich — Musician; January 20, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at York, Pa. 

WiLMOT AyrES — Musician; January 20, 1864; discharged by 
special order. May 29, 1865 ; died November 7, 1902. 

Privates. 

Apple, Henry — January 22,, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; dead. 

Apple, John — January 28, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Armpriester, Samuel — January 26, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865; residing at York, Pa. 

Anderson, Andrew — x\pril 6, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Bryansville, York Co, 
Pa.' 

Andrews, Joseph A. — January 20, 1864; killed at Petersburg, 
Va., June 18, 1864. 

Amich, Augustus — January 20, 1864; deserted, December 6, 
1864. 

Albert, Charles — January 20, 1864; deserted, February 25, 
1865. 



248 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Burger, Henry C. — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Berkheimer, George — January 20, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at York, Pa. 

Blain, Wieliam H. — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Fawn Grove, York 
Co., Pa. 

Burger, Simon — January 20, 1864; died June 20, of wounds 
received at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864; buried in 
National Cemetery, City Point, Va. 

BowEN, John — January 26, 1864; died at Goldsboro, Pa., August 
21, 1864. 

Bryant, John — January 29, 1864; deserted, January 27, 1865. 

Boyd, James — January 25, 1864; deserted, February 6, 1864. 

Campbell, John M. — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Red Lion, York Co., Pa. 

Campbell, Jos. W. — January 20, 1864 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865; died October, 1904. 

Crone, Jacob — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Etters, York Co., Pa. 

Channell, Wm. T. — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

DuDROW, John W. — January 20, 1864; Des. Ret.; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865. 

Decker, Geo. D. D. — January 20, 1864; discharged by general 
order, June 22, 1864. 

Drawbaugh, Darius — January 26, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

DuGAN, John — January 20, 1864; died at Philadelphia, Pa., 
November 3, 1864. 

Eshenbaugh, Fred — January 21, 1864; died June 19, of wounds 
received at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 




■«^ 




Member 



JOHN WOY, COMPANY H. 
of Executive Committee, Sun-iz-ors' Association. 




WILLIAM x\. RHYXOLDS. 2 FKANKLIX 1-iXXKCV 

3 LIEUTENANT DANIEL KELLER. 

COMPANY H. 



CAPTAIN RANSFORD B. WEBB. COMPANY I. 




I GEORGE N. ASHEXFEFLDER. 2 AARON M. LANDIS. 
3 ROBERT M. BOYLES. 4 SERGT. JOHN A. STEEL. 



COMPANY I. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 253 

FethERS, Owen— January 21, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
Fulton, James — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 
FuE, Peter — January 26, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 
Gable, Henry— January 23, 1864; wounded at Petersburg, Va., 
June 18, 1864; absent, in hospital at muster out; residing 
at York, Pa. 
Gilbert, William H.— January 29, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Craleysville, York 
Co., Pa. 
Groover, Charles— January 20, 1864; died at Philadelphia, Pa., 

January 5, 1865. 
Horn, Daniel — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 
HeidlER, John F. — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at York, Pa. 
Hamilton, Wm. H. — January, 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865; residing at Gatshalville, York 
Co.,' Pa. 
Hummer, Jacob — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 
Hunter, Joseph J. — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
Johnson, Wm. J. C— January 23, 1864; died June 30, of wounds 
received at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864; buried in 
National Cemetery, City Point. 
Jones, William W.— January 20, 1864; died October 2, of 
wounds received July 10, 1864: buried in Cypress Hill 
Cemetery, L. I., N. Y. 
Keesey, Oliver— January 20, 1864: Des. Ret. : mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 
14 



254 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIME:NT 

Keesey, Harrison — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Keesey, Abbington — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Keesey, Warrington — January 20, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Keesey, John H. — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Klay, George H. — January 26, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Kramer, Oliver — January 26, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

KuNKLE, Henry S. — January 20, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's 
Certificate, December 7, 1864. 

Kliner, Edward — January 23, 1864; deserted, February 11, 
1864. 

Kerlin, Wiluam — January 20, 1864; deserted. May 25, 1865; 
dead. 

Lehman, Charles — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 '■> national Soldiers' and Sailors' 
Home, Dayton, Ohio. 

Lloyd, Lewis S. — January 20, 1864; mustered out wnth Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at York, Pa. 

Levenight, Henry — January 26, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's 
Certificate, December 13, 1864; dead. 

Landis, Henry — January 20, 1864; died on U. S. Transport, 
date unknown ; burial record Henry Sanders, August 2y, 
1864, at Beverly, N. J. 

Myers, Augustus — January 23, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Morgan, William — January 26, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 



rENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEljR INFANTRY 255 

Nauss, William H. — January 20, 1864; wounded at Petersburg, 
Va., June 18, 1864; transferred to 36th Company, Second 
Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps ; date unknown ; residing 
at Mechanicsburg, Pa., R. F. D. No. 4. 

Platts, John — January 26, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Palmer, William — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Pyle, David — April 2, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Patterson, Andrew — January 26, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

PylE, Abraham L. — April 6, 1864; died at City Point, Va., 
August I, 1864; Veteran, 

Rupp, Frederick — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Ream, Adam — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Reynolds, Milton B. — January 20, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Gatshalville, Pa. 

Ruby, Walter B. — January 26, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at York, Pa. 

Reiser, Solomon — January 26, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Sprenkle, Sylvester — January 20, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

SourbeER, Jacob — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Steininger, Otto — January 26, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at York, Pa. 

Sweeney, John — January 26, 1864; absent, sick, at muster out. 

SeifERT, Aaron — January 26, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 



256 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Stump, William R.— January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Seifert, Michael G.— January 26, 1864; died at Harrisburg, 
Pa., February 24, 1864. 

SouRBEER, Samuel — January 20, 1864; died June 19, 1864, of 
wounds received at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864; buried 
at City Point, Va., National Cemetery, section E, division 
I, grave 102. 

SporlEder, Lewis — January 20, 1864; died at City Point, Va., 
June 19, of wounds received at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 
1864; buried in National Cemetery. 

Shillinger, John — January 20, 1864; deserted, December 9, 
1864. 

Trump, William — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

ToRBERT, Isaac — April 6, 1864 : discharged on Surgeon's Certifi- 
cate, June 26, 1865. 

ToRBERT, Wm. H. — April 6, 1864; died July 7, at Alexandria, 
Va., of wounds received at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864; 
grave 2,344. 

WelcomER, Danill — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Walters, Jacob H. — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Wood, Henry — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

WilhELM, Wm. H. — January 20, 1864 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at York, Pa. 

Wilson, Charles — January 26, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Welsh, Howard — January 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Wails, Thomas W. — April i, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 257 

Wilson, Henry M. — January 26, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Wright, John — January 29, 1864; killed at Petersburg, Va., 
June 18, 1864. 

Wails, John G. — January 22, 1864; killed at Petersburg, Va., 
June 18, 1864. 

Young, Henry C. — March 22, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Company C. 

William Young — Captain; February 26, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Washington, 
Pa. 

Orville D. Harder — First Lieutenant ; February 26, 1864 ; mus- 
tered out with Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

George G. Lovett — Second Lieutenant; February 26, 1864; pro- 
moted to Captain, Company K, May 11, 1864; died January 
I, 1905. 

James R. Johnson — Second Lieutenant ; May 11, 1864; mustered 
out with Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Alfred B. Patton — First Sergeant; January 22, 1864; mustered 
out with Company, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran ; dead. 

John S. Ware — Sergeant; January 29, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865; Veteran; dead. 

Seth K. SharplESS — Sergeant; June 20, 1863; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865; residing at Laramie, 
Wyoming. 

William H. Cool — Sergeant; June 20, 1863; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Frank Rockefeller— Sergeant ; June 25, 1863; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865. 

James B. Moore— Sergeant ; January 21, 1864; killed at Peters- 
burg, Va., June 18, 1864. 



258 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

John C. Irvin — Corporal; June 20, 1863; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Hugh P. Libhart — Corporal; June 20, 1863; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Newton , Kan. 

Amos Carman — Corporal; January 19, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran ; dead. 

John H. Harder — Corporal; June 20, 1863; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

William E. Mohr — Corporal; February 3, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3. 1865 ; residing at Muncy, Pa. 

Daniel Marshall — Corporal; January 21, 1864; deserted, Jan- 
uary 19, 1865 ; dead. 

James B. Forrest — Musician; January 29, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Lewisburg, Pa. 

Charles P. Harder — Musician; April 14, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Danville, Pa. 

Priz'ates. 

Alvvard, Arthur — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Belhvood, Pa. 

Brown, Benton B. — January 24, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Danville, Pa. 

Brown, George W. — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

Beatty, John R. — January 26, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

BerdaniEL, George W. — January 29, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Bryant, William — January 30, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865; dead. 

Beaver, Charles S. — January 22, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Jacksonville, Florida. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 259 

Brace, Henry E.— January 26, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

BiRTCH, Isaac — January 13, 1864; deserted October 10, 1864. 

CuTAiR, Charles — January 26, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Case, Nelson B. — January 22, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Havre-de-grace, Md. 

Caslin, Michael — January 22, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Campbell, Andrew — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Craig, William — February 16, 1864 ; died at WilHamsport, Pa., 
April 12, 1864. 

Devine, John C. — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Johnstown, Pa. 

Eckert, Samuel — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Elliott, William — January 21, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Easton, James S. — January 26, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran ; residing at New Lenox, 111. 

Eyerley, Charles W. — January 29, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Funston, Charles R. — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Laport, Sullivan Co., Pa. 

Foreman, Osman — January 5, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Independence, Ohio. 

Frame, Joseph L. — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Danville, Pa. 

Fox, John — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

FriblEy, William H.— February 3, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 



260 HISTORY OF 187TII REGIMENT 

Flanigan, Reese — January 29, 1864; died at David's Island, N. 
Y., August 23, 1864; buried in Cypress Hill Cemetery, L. I. 

Gandiblue, Joseph — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead ; date unknown. 

Gibbons, James H. — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

GiBBS, James M. — January 22, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 '■> residing at Harrisburg, Pa. 

GiBBS, Charles H. — September 17, 1864; discharged by special 
order, May 30, 1865. 

Geiger, William — January 5, 1864; transferred to 157th Regi- 
ment P. v., June 15, 1864. 

Henry, John — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Heffler, Jacob — June 20, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

HulliEn, Wm. F. — September 21, 1864; discharged by general 
order, July 14, 1865; residing at Danville, Pa. 

Hale, Ephraim K. — September 8, 1864; discharged by general 
order, July 5, 1865; died May 21, 1905. 

Hauver, John — September 20, 1864; deserted March i, 1865. 

IcKUS, John — September 29, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Danville, Pa. 

IcKUS, Henry — September 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Jackson, George W. — September 29, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865; residing at Danville, Pa. 

Jackson, Caleb — September 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Jones, William P. — September 29, 1864; deserted, March i, 
1865 ; dead. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 261 

Kercher, GotliEb — September 26, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

KuTCHMAN, Theodore — September 5, 1864; transferred to Vet- 
eran Reserve Corps, October 4, 1864. 

Levers, Joseph — September 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; died, 1903. 

Lewis, William — June 20, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Maney, Patrick — May 25, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead, date unknown. 

Miller, John — January 22, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead, 

Morgan, Thomas P. — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Morgan, Watkin — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

MiLNER, William — January 26, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's 
Certificate, July 4, 1865 ; dead. 

Mellin, Oscar G. — September 13, 1864; discharged by general 
order, July 5, 1865 ; residing at Danville, Pa. 

Nash, William — June 20, 1864; wounded, with loss of leg, at 
Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864; discharged October 31, 
1865 ; residing at Mitchell, S. D. 

O'Brian, John — January 22, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead, date unknown, 

QPLINGER, Samuel — January 29, 1864; deserted, May 11, 1864. 

PowLEY, Henry — January 22, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

PaTTon, Irvin T. — January 22, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Pollen, John — June 20, 1863; deserted March i, 1865. 

Rank, David H. — January 21, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead, 1903. 



262 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Reed, Peter M. — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Genoa, DeKalb Co., 111. 

Rishee, George — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865; dead, 1865. 

Rishel, Charles — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead, 1865. 

Roberts, John E. — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Danville, Pa. 

Rantz, Isaac — January 29, 1864; Mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

RiDGWAY, Warren M. — January 26, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Roderick, John J. — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Canal Dover, Ohio. 

Spooneberger, Peter — January 29, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Smith, Edward D. — January 21, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead, 1904. 

Seack, Jacob — January 26, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Danville, Pa. 

SecheER, John — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Stall, Samuel — January 28, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Snell, Isaac — January 28, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Slack, John W. — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Spooneberger, James — January 29, 1864; deserted, October 10, 
1864. 

Steward, William — January 29, 1864; deserted, March 31, 
1865 ; dead. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 263 

Thornton, Grier M. — January 22, 1864; discharged; date un- 
known; dead, 1903. 

Vangilder, George W. — January 20, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; died May 7, 1905. 

VoGEL, William — June 25, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Wray, Lewis V. — January 21, 1864; wounded at Petersburg, 
Va., June 18, 1864; mustered out with Company, August 
3, 1865 ; dead, 1903. 

WerTman, John — January 26, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865; residing at Danville, Pa. 

WerTman,, Elijah — January 22, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Danville, Pa. 

WerkhEisER, a. B. — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Ware, James D. — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Chicago, 111. 

Watts, William M. — January 29, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Wallace, John H. — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Philadelphia, Pa. 

Warren, Henry — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Williams, William — January 29, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Warren, George — January 29, 1864; absent, sick at muster out. 

Wirt, William — January 29, 1864; absent, sick at muster out. 

Waldron, John — February 3, 1864; discharged January 3. 1865, 
for wounds, with loss of arm, received at Petersburg. Va., 
June 18, 1864; dead. 

Wray, James — January 29, 1864; deserted, February 2. 1864. 



264 history of 187th regiment 

Company D, 

Joseph A. Ege — Captain; February 26, 1864; promoted to Lieu- 
tenant Colonel, June 19, 1865 ; dead. 

John E. Frymire — Captain ; June 27, 1863 ; promoted from 
First Lieutenant, July 18, 1865 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Lumberton, N. J. 

John S. Gore — First Lieutenant; March 22, 1864; promoted 
from Second Lieutenant, July 18, 1865 ; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Frances Best — Second Lieutenant; February 10, 1864; Pro- 
moted from First Sergeant, July 19, 1865 5 mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865; Veteran; dead. 

Wii^EiAM D. RiTNER — First Sergeant; June 26, 1863; promoted 
from Sergeant, July 19, 1865; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran ; residing at Washington, 
D. C. 

Ruben K. Allison — Sergeant ; July 20, 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865; Veteran; residing at York, Pa. 

James M. Kennedy — Sergeant; February 10, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865. 

Henry H. Peck — Sergeant ; June 26, 1863 J mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865; Veteran; dead. 

Lewis T. Moul — Sergeant ; July 20, 1863 ; promoted from Cor- 
poral; mustered out with Company, August 3, 1865; Vet- 
eran ; dead. 

William E. Zinn — Sergeant; February 10, 1864; promoted to 
Sergeant Major, May i, 1864; dead. 

Samuel Bricker — Corporal ; June 26, 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Washington, D. C. 

William O. Trego — Corporal ; July 14, 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Milton, Pa. 

ScoTT Randall — Corporal ; June 2"], 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 265 

John C. Thompson — Corporal; July 12, 1863; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Trenton, Hitchcock 
Co., Neb. 

Henry A. Cobaugh — Corporal ; July 25, 1863 ; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Washington, D. C. 

Henry C. Shearer — Corporal; February 25, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

Alexander Kennedy — Corporal; February 5, 1864; mustered 
out with Company, August 3, 1865; Veteran; residing at 
Bloserville, Pa. 

David Morrison — Corporal; February 25, 1864; promoted to 
Corporal, July 19, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Joseph A. Shaw — Corporal ;July i, 1863; killed at Weldon Rail- 
road, Va., August 19, 1864. 

Francis M. Stokes — Musician; June 26, 1863; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Hoguestown, 
Cumberland Co., Pa. 

Augustus G. Kyle — Musician; January 29, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran ; residing at New- 
vill, Pa. 

Privates. 

Anthony, Joseph — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Allen, George W. — February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Ash, Hugh W.— January 29, 1864; discharged by special order, 
August 16, 1865. 

Burns, John H.— January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

BixLER, Andrew— June 26, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Colorado Springs, Col. 



266 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT , 

B1XI.ER, Samuel — June 29, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; Veteran ; residing at Greencastle, Pa. 

BuRTNETT, Wm. H. — February 10, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Landisburg, Pa. 

BoYEES, Theodore R. — June 27, 1863 ; died June 19, of wounds 
received at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864; buried in 
National Cemetery, City Point ; section E, division 2 ; 
grave 48. 

Caldwell, Edward V. — January 21, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Philadelphia, Pa. 

Correll, Daniel — February 10, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Carl, Isaac — June 26, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Daly, William G. — January 26, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Derr, Isaac — February 19, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

FerrEE, Jonathan E. — February 19, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Newville, Pa. 

Faughender, John M. — February 10, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865; Veteran; residing at Harris- 
burg, Pa. 

Faughender, James A. — February 10, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Grand View, Doug- 
las Co., S. D. 

Faughender, Wm. H. — February 19, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Grand View, Doug- 
las Co., S. D. 

Finkenbinder, Samuel — February 10, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Faughender, McC. E. — February 19, 1864; killed at Peters- 
burg, Va., June 18, 1864. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEKR INFANTRY 2^"] 

Frazer, John W. — April 5, 1864; not on muster out roll. 

Green, John — January 30, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

GrEEN^ William — February 10, 1864 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Gensler, Peter — February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Big Spring, Cumber- 
land Co., Pa. 

Gensler, John F. — February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

GooDKNECHT, Christ. — January 29, 1864; discharged, December 
9, 1864. 

Geltz, William — July 25, 1864; discharged July 24, 1865, ex- 
piration of term. 

Gensler, William R. — February 25, 1864; killed at Petersburg, 
Va., June 18, 1864. 

Henry, Benjamin — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Newville, Pa. 

Henry, William A. — June 26, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Henry, Abraham — January 29, 1864; deserted, February i, 
1865; returned; mustered out with Company, August 3, 
1865 ; dead, 1904. 

Hamilton, Alexander — January 29, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Hacket, Thomp. R. — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Hefeilfinger, Joseph — February 10, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Householder, Wm. — June 26, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Washington, D. C. 

HippensteEL, Samuel — February 19, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 



268 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Hart, David — February 19, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Hoover, Michael — August 9, 1864; discharged by general order, 
July 24, 1865 ; never served with Company. 

Hoover, Andrew — August 9, 1864; discharged by general order, 
July 24, 1865 ; never served with Company. 

Jones, Peter — June 26, 1863 ; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

KuTz, George B. — February 10, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

KiNER, William J. — February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Kennedy, Nathaniel — February 25, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Keck, Aaron — Frebruary 10, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's 
certificate, June 3, 1865. 

Kiner, John I. — February 25, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's 
certificate, date unknown. 

Landis, George — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

LuTZ, Samuel D. — February 10, 1864; killed at Weldon Rail- 
• road, Va., August 19, 1864. 

Muck, John — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Martin, John — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Myers, Henry — February 16, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Mitten, William A. — July 17, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead, date unknown. 

Miller, Jacob A. — July 12, 1863 : mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 




CAPTAIN GEORGE G. LOVETT, COMPANY K. 

Member of Executive Committee, Survivors' Association. 
Died January i, 1905- 



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1 MUSICIAN SA.MUHL LOWRl-A'. 
2 LIEUTENANT GEORGE S. WALKER. 
3 LIEUTENANT ALEX. BLACKBURN. 

COMPANY K. 




CHARLES B. HIJJS. 2 WEBSTER SPENCER. 
3 GEORGE DO AN. 
COMPANY K. 




I CORPORAL EDWIN RODGKRS. -' JOSEPH O' BR IAN. 

3 GEORGE GRAFUS. 4 CORPORAL JOHN DUXX. 

COMPANY K. 



I'KNNSVLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 273 

MiNNiCH, Leonard — February 19, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

MiNNicii, William — February 19, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Maurice, George — February 19, 1864 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Morrison, Wm. T. — February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865; residing at Landisburg, Pa. 

McLx^UGHLiN, Daniel — January 29, 1864: mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Xewville, Pa. 

McKeehan, Robert M. — January 29, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at ^h. Rock, Cumber- 
land Co., Pa. 

McCrea, Seibkkt — February to, 1864: mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865; residing at Harrisburg, Pa. 

jMcCrEA, John — February 10, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

North. William T. — February 10, 1864: mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Newville, Pa. 

Nonemaker, Henry — February 10, 1864: died at Alexandria, 

Va., July 14, 1864; grave 2,395. 
OiLER, Samuel A. — February 19, 1864; transferred to Veteran 

Reserve Corps ; discharged by general order, July 31, 1865. 

Ployer, Frederick K. — February 19, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 : residing at Mechanicsbury, Pa. 

Power, William — February 25, 1864: mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

RiNEHART, David J. — February 10, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3. 1865 ; residing at Big Springs, Cum- 
berland Co., Pa. 

SwANSON, Wm. E.— January 25, 1864: mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 
15 



274 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Shaeffer, Joseph — July i, 1863; mustered out with Company; 
August 3, 1865. 

ShEafFER, Wflungton — February 19, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

Staver, Levi — June 26, 1863; absent, sick at muster out; residing 
at Newville, Pa. 

Smith, Wilson — February 19, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1863; Veteran; residing at Smithville, 
Lancaster Co., Pa. 

SiPE, Abram — February 25, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

ShannefeIvSER, Michael — February 25, 1864; mustered out with 
Compnay, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

Stahl, Uriah — February 10, 1864; died, September 7, of wounds 
received at Weldon Railroad, Va., August 19, 1864; buried 
in National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. 

Sheriff, David — February 19, 1864; died at Newville, Pa., 
December 18, 1864. 

Toomey, Henry — February 25, 1864; killed at Weldon Railroad, 
Va., August 19, 1864; buried in Poplar Grove National 
Cemetery, Petersburg, Va., division D, section D, grave 45. 

Umholtz, Wm. T. — February 10, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865; Veteran; residing at Landisburg, 
Pa.' 

Vogelsong, George D. — May 26, 1864; absent at muster out; 
never served with Company. 

Wolf, Adam A. — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Wolf, Henry A. — February 10, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

Wagoner, Abraham — February, 10, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Wolf, Henry — February 10; 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Greason, Cumberland Co., Pa. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 275 

Ward, John — July 12, 1863; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; died January 22, 1902. 

Waton, Christopher — June 26, 1863; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Waters, Francis — February 10, 1864 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Warner, John — February 25, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Company E. 

Charles A. Thomas— Captain ; January 2^], 1864; discharged 
March 9, 1865 ; dead. 

Frederick B. Argue — Captain; January 27, 1864; promoted 
from Second to First Lieutenant, October i, 1864; to Cap- 
tain, May 20, 1865 ; mustered out with Company, August 
3. 1865. 

Henry V. Christy — First Lieutenant; January 27, 1864; dis- 
charged, July 25, 1864. 

James Slemer — First Lieutenant; January 27, 1864; promoted 
from First Sergeant to Second Lieutenant, October i,. 
1864; to First Lieutenant, June i, 1865; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Edward Steel — Second Lieutenant; February 4, 1864; promoted 
from First Sergeant, June i, 1865 ;mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

George W. Fowler— First Sergeant ; January 13, 1864 ; mustered 
out with Company, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran ; residing at 
Hampton, Va. 

John H. Gasson— First Sergeant ; ; deserted, June 18, 

1864. 

Andrew G. Forster— Sergeant ; January 13, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865. Veteran. 

Thomas SemplE— Sergeant ; January 15, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865; Veteran; dead. 



276 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

William Naylor — Sergeant; January 18. 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran ; residing at As- 
bury Park, N. J. 

SelEn C. Krisher — Sergeant; January 11, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Philadelphia, 
Pa. 

Geo. W. Kennedy — Sergeant; January 5, 1864; promoted to 
Hospital Steward, date unknown; dead. 

John D. Fource — Corporal; January 18, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Altoona, Pa. 

James Goodlin — Corporal ; January 29, 1864 ; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran ; dead. 

Alexander Carson — Corporal; May 4, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

William Stewart — Corporal; January 15, 1864; mustered out 

with Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Philadelphia, 

Pa. 
Ross McClelland — Corporal; January 18, 1864; wounded at 

Petersburg, June 18, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
Thomas Stockman — Corporal; February 9, 1864; mustered out 

with Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
George W. Haynes — Corporal ; January 5, 1864 ; mustered out 

with Company, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran ; dead. 
Robert E. Johnson — Corporal; January 12, 1864; killed at 

Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 
Charles H. Long — Corporal; January 11, 1864; deserted, Octo- 
ber II, 1864. 
Isaac B. Thomas — Corporal; January 12, 1864; deserted. May 

18, 1865. 
Thomas RittEnhouse — Musician; January 15, 1864; mustered 

out with Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
Philip W. Richards— Musician ; January 15, 1864; mustered 

out with Company, August 3, 1865. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 277 

Privates. 
Archer, Isaac— January i6, 1864; deserted, January 27, 1864. 
Boyd, William— January 16, 1864; absent, sick at muster out. 
Boone, Thomas A.— January 18, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 
Burnhart, Chas. A. —January 13, 1864; mustered out with 

Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
BiLDERBACH, Thomas— January 5, 1864— transferred to Com- 
pany F, date unknown. 
Bradley, Edward— January 11, 1864; died July 16; burial rec- 
ord, July 14, 1864, of wounds received at Petersburg, Va., 
July 10^ 1864; buried in National Cemetery, City Point; 
section C, division i, grave 156. 
Barnum, Charles F.— January 20, 1864; died October 12, 1864; 

buried in National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. 
Burr, Edward— February 11, 1864; deserted. May 26, 1864. 
Campbell, Andrew— February 11, 1864; mustered out with 

Company, August 3, 1865. 
Collins, William— January 18, 1864; wounded at Petersburg, 

Va., June 18, 1864 ; absent at muster out ; dead. 
Collins, Thomas J.— January 18, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 
Clardy, Joseph H.— January 11, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
Conway, James— January 22, 1864; killed at Petersburg, \'a., 

June 18, 1864. 
Caton, William PL— January 15, 1864; deserted. June i, 1865. 
Cook, William H.— January 29, 1864; deserted, June 22,, 1865. 
Devlin, Peter— January 13, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865; dead. 
Dunn, James— January 20, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Philadelphia, Pa. 



2/8 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

DoTTER, William — March 16, 1865 ; discharged May 3, to date 
March 10, 1865. 

DoRSHiMER, Charles — March 10, 1865 ; discharged May 3, to 
date March 10, 1865. 

Davis, William C. — January 16, 1864; deserted, May i, 1864. 

EgolF, John — January 11, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Elliott, Robert — January 18, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Evans, William H.' — January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Everett, Nathan — March 10, 1865 ; discharged May 3, to date 
March 10, 1865. 

Everett, David — March 10, 1865 ; discharged May 3, to date 
March 10, 1865. 

Ferguson, John — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Fleming, John — January 22, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Foster, Albin — January 18, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Felmey, Albert A. — January 15, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Flick, Charles — January 18, 1864; transferred to Company F, 
date unknown. 

FouRCE, John C. — February 10, 1864; died at Washington, D. 
C, March 31, 1865. 

Farmer, Edward — February 8, 1864; deserted, June 25, 1865; 
dead. 

Glenn, William — February 4, 1864; wounded at Petersburg, 
Va., June 18, 1865 ; absent in Hospital at muster out ; dead. 

Genn, Davii> p. — January 16, 1864; absent, sick at muster out; 
dead. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 279 

GoEE, JAMES-January 5. -864: mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 
GiLMORE, ROBEKT-January 30. 1864; deserted. ^'o-"|>" 9' 
1864; returned November 21. 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3. 1865 ; dead. 
Gibbons, James S-January 15. 1864; transferred to Company 

F date unknown. 
Harvey, James W.-Jan„ary 16, 1864; mustered out with Com- 

panv, August 3, 1865. 
HuOBES, PATRicK-January 20, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany. August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
Hunt, John H.-January 16, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany. August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
Hill, JACOB-February 9. 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
Horn, SAMUEL-February 10, .864; mustered otit with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Burhngton N. J. 
Hill, Er,w.«^March 10, 1865; discharged May 3. to date 

March 10. 1865 ; dead. 
Hill, SouoMON-March 10, 1865; discharged May 3. to date 

March 10, 1865. 
IRVIN, JosKPii-January 19. -864: died at Philadelphia. Pa., 

November i, 1864. 
JONES, WiLLlAM-January 20. 1864; mustered out with Com- 

panv, August 3, 1865. 
Johnson, 'joHN-January n, 1864; died at Harrisburg. Pa., 

Februarv 25, 1864. 
J,,,,, EowAR^January ii, .864 ; mustered out with Compan>, 

Krerps'fTeo S.-j'anuary 20, 1864 : mustered out with Company. 

A.uo'ust -^. 1865; dead. 
K,,,, SAMuEL-January 12. 1864 : mustered out with Contpany ; 

August 3. 1865 -.dead. 



28o HISTORY OF iS/TH REGIMENT 

Krisiier, Benj. F. — May 4, 1864; wounded at Petersburg, Va., 
June 18, 1864; absent at muster out; residing near Dayton, 
Ohio. 

Kresge, Josiah F. — March 10, 1865 ; discharged May 3, to date 
^larch 10, 1865. 

KocHELL, LoTT — January 19, 1864; transferred to Veteran Re- 
serve Corps; discharged by general order, July 29, 1865; 
dead. 

KelIvEy, Lawrence — January 11, 1864; deserted January 30, 
1864. 

King, Thomas — January 18, 1864; deserted February 12, 1864. 

Laughun, Thomas — January 11, 1864; Absent on detached ser- 
vice at muster out ; residing at Stewart, Iowa. 

LovETT, Thomas — January 15, 1864; deserted May 29, 1865. 

Meany, Joseph — January 16, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Maley, Hugh — January 24, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Meagher, Philip — January 24, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Philadelphia, Pa. 

Middleton, Edward — January 18, 1864; transferred to Company 
F; date unknown. 

Morgan, William H. — January 20, 1864; transferred to Com- 
pany F ; date unknown. 

Mahoney, John — January 15, 1864; deserted December i, 1864. 

Michael, Isaac W. — January 22, 1864; deserted December i, 
1864; dead. 

MooRE, William — January 15, 1864; deserted January 28, 1864. 
McAvoy, John — January 11, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

McBride, John — January 15, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 281 

McClEary, Edward — January ii, 1864; killed at Petersburg, 
June 22, 1864. 

McAllister, David — January 11, 1864; died, June 20, of wounds 
received at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864; buried in 
National Cemetery, City Point, Va. 

NoRMiN^ William — January 21, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Nichols, Thomas — January 9, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's 
Certificate, April 10, 1865. 

O'Brien, Andrew — January 5, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Paynter, David — January 15, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Philips, Alfred — January 18, 1864; transferred to Veteran Re- 
serve Corps ; discharged by General Order, August 9, 1865. 

Powers, William — January 20, 1864; deserted January 30, 1864. 

RilEY', Patrick — January 5, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; dead. 

Riley, Thomas F. — January 11, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

RiTTenhousE, Peter — February 3, 1864 ; wounded at Petersburg, 
Va., June 18, 1864; mustered out with Company, August 
3, 1865; dead. 

Richardson, John — January 15, 1864; deserted February 2, 
1865 ; returned February 20, 1865 ; mustered out with 
Company, August 3. 1865. 

Ruth, Abraham M. — January 15, 1864; deserted May 23, 1864; 
returned December 6, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Reed, Joel — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865. 

RoATH, Jacob vS.— February 9, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's 
certificate, February 3, 1865. 



282 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

RuMFORD, William — January 5, 1864; wounded at Petersburg, 
Va., July 18, 1864; discharged by General Order, June 
26, 1865 ; residing at Norristown, Pa. 

Reynolds, Samuel — January 9, 1864; deserted March i, 1864. 

RuDDEN, Charles — October 19, 1864; deserted October 20, 1864. 

Smith, Joseph H. — January 15, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

ScHRiVER, Charles — January 16, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Philadelphia, Pa. 

Serfass, Aaron — March 10, 1865 ; discharged by Special Order, 
May 3, to date March 10, 1865. 

SeiblER, Rudolph — March 10, 1865 ; discharged by Special 
Order, May 3, to date March 10, 1865. 

Saxer, Philip — January 18, 1864; transferred to Company F; 
date unknown. 

Sneer, George W. — February 11, 1864; transferred to Company 
F ; date unknown. 

Shields, Albert — February 15, 1864; transferred to Company 
F ; date unknown. 

Snyder, John — February 3, 1864; deserted June 20, 1865. 

Taylor, William — January 11, 1864; deserted June 20, 1865. 

Tyson, David — January 19, 1864; deserted January 25, 1864. 

Tracy, Benjamin — October 18, 1864; deserted November 4, 
1864. 

VanMeeter, George — January 18, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

VanHorn, Samuel B. — January 5, 1864; deserted March 2, 

1864. 
Wall, Lewis H. — January 20, 1864; wounded at Petersburg, 
Va., June 18, 1864; absent in hospital at muster out. 

WoLVERTON, Mahlon — January 5, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; veteran. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 283 

Williams, Henry — January 12, 1864; transferred from 87th P. 
V. May 26, 1865 ; mustered out with Company, August 
3, 1865 5 veteran. 

Wunderly, George — January 16, 1864; died June 19, of wounds 
received at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864; buried on 
Peter Burchard's property, Petersburg, Va. 

West, Andrew H. — January 18, 1864; deserted July 2, 1865. 

WiPPED, Joseph — January 15, 1864; deserted July 15, 1865. 

Company F. 

William Barr — Captain ; February 26, 1864; discharged on Sur- 
geon's Certificate, September 6, 1864. 

John E. Reilly — Captain; February 26, 1864; promoted from 
First Lieutenant, September 21, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. Wounded June 18, 1864, but 
did not leave the field. Residing at Philadelphia, Pa. 

Samuel B. McCahen — First Lieutenant; February 3. 1864; pro- 
moted from First Sergeant, October i, 1864; discharged 
June 5, 1865. 

Joseph A. J. Smiley — Second Lieutenant; March 18, 1864; re- 
signed May 10, 1864. 

Abraham J. Rupp— Second Lieutenant; May 7, 1864; discharged 
by Special Order, September 3, to date May 17, 1864. 

Paul E. CowpER — Second Lieutenant; February 13, 1864; pro- 
moted from Sergeant, September 22, 1864; commissioned 
First Lieutenant, June 6, 1865 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865; dead. 

Gideon W. Myers— First Sergeant, January 5. 1864; commis- 
sioned Second Lieutenant June 6, 1865; not mustered; 
mustered out with Company, August 3, 1865; dead. 

Jacob E. Zimmerman— Sergeant ; February 5, 1864; mustered 
out with Company, August 3, 1865; dead. 

Isaac T. Seal— Sergeant ; January 2.2, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 



284 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Matthew Jones — Sergeant; February 3, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

James S. Gibbons — Corporal; January 15, 1864; wounded at 
at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864; absent in hospital at 
muster out. 

Benjamin F. Dornblaser — Corporal; January 26, 1864; mus- 
tered out with Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

John Hefton — Corporal ; January 5, 1864 ; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Joseph Johnson — Corporal; January 26, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865. 

Amos S. Eastburn — Corporal; February 4, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865. 

William Miller — Corporal; February 13, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Walter P. Picker — Corporal; January 5, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865. 

Eugene Lenhart — Corporal; March 22, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Berwick, Pa. 

Joseph A. Clarkson — Musician; January 5, 1864; deserted June 
25, 1865 ; returned July 8, 1865 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Robert Harding — Musician ; January 5, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Prk-ates. 

Alcorn, Robert — February 3, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

AsHWORTH, John — January 5, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

AusTON, William— January 29, 1864; deserted, October 31, 
1864. 

Batteux, Paul — January 29, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 285 

Britton, Zachary T.— February 9, 1864; mustered out with 

Company, August 3, 1865. 
Bilderbach, Thomas— January 5, 1864; mustered out with 

Company, August 3, 1865. 
Blocksidge, SylvkstivR— April 5, 1864 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 
Bertron, John— January 5, 1864; discharged by special order, 

dated August 16, 1865. 
Burr, Edward— February 11, 1864; transferred to Company E; 

date unknown. 
Barry, David— April 8, 1864; deserted, May 17, 1864. 
Buck, James F.— February 3, 1864; never joined the Company. 
Bradley, James— January 5, 1864; deserted, June 14. 1865. 
Connelly, Peter— April 8, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865 ; wounded June 8, 1864. 
Cox, Isaac— May 4, 1864 ; mustered out with Company, August 

3, 1864. 
Campbell, Andrew— February 11, 1864; transferred to Com- 
pany E ; date unknown. 
Clark, James— January 26, 1864; deserted, January 18, 1865. 
Duffy, Francis X.— January 5, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
Deshay, James W.— February 20, 1864; discharged by special 

order, dated August 16, 1865 ; residing at Danville, Pa. 
DeFrancis, Charles— January 26, 1864; killed at Petersburg, 

Va., June 18, 1864. 
Dagan, William— February i, 1864; died at Alexandria, \'a., 

August 8, 1864; grave 2,529. 
Dambley, Hugo— January 5, 1864; deserted, January 29, 1864. 
Daily, Francis— January 5, 1864; deserted. June 14. 1865. 
Deal, William— January 5, 1864; deserted. January 7. 1865. 



286 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

EvERHART, John W. — February i, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 5 residing at Steelton, Pa. 

Emory, Philip — January 5, 1864; deserted, January 29, 1864. 

EvERLiNG, John — January 5, 1864; deserted June 14, 1865. 

Feltz, Peter — January 5, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Ferry, John W. — April 8, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Flick, Charles — January 18, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Ford, Charles — February i, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's Cer- 
tificate, December 7, 1864. 

Farmer, Edward — February 8, 1864; transferred to Company 
E ; date unknown ; dead. 

Ferguson, John — January 29, 1864; transferred to Company 
E ; date unknown. 

FouRCE, John C. — February 20, 1864; transferred to Company 

E ; date unknown. 
Foster, Albin H. — February 18, 1864; transferred to Company 

E ; date unknown. 
Finnigan, Patrick — February 12, 1864; deserted; date un- 
known. 
Gorman, John C. — January 5, 1864; absent, sick at muster out. 
Goodin, James — January 29, 1864; transferred to Company E; 

date unknown. 
GilmorE, Robert — January 30, 1864; transferred to Company E; 

date unknown. 
Glenn, William— February 4, 1864; transferred to Company E; 

date unknown. 
Goodman, Andrew— January 5, 1864; died at Harrisburg, Pa., 

March 10, 1864. 
Griffith, GomER R.— February 9, 1864; deserted, June 10, 1864. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 287 

Hancock, Samuel— January 5, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865; dead. 
Herr, Samuel— April 5, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
Henderson, James— January 5, 1864; Mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 
Hutchinson, Jos. B.— March 22, 1865 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 
Haben, George— March 22, 1865 ; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 
Hill, Jacob— February 9, 1864; transferred to Company F; date 

unknown. 
Horn, Samuel— February 10, 1864; transferred to Company F; 

date unknown. 
Harp, Samuel— May 4. 1864; died June 19, of wounds received 

at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864. 
Haas, Charles J.— February 4, 1864; deserted, June 25, 1864; 

dead. 
Johnson, Henry— September 7, 1864; discharged by general 

order, July 15, 1865. 
James, DAVii^February i, 1864; killed at Petersburg, Va., June 

18, 1864. 
Jenkins, William— January 26, 1864; deserted, January 29, 

1864. 
Jones, Henry— January 20, 1864; deserted, July i, 1865. 
Kelly, Andrew^— January 26, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
Knouf, HEiNRiCH-January 30, 1864; transferred to Veteran 

Reserve Corps, December 2, 1864. 
LaBarth, John M.— May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
Louis, WiLLiAM-February 2, 1864; deserted, February 6, 1864. 



288 HISTORY OF iS/TH REGIMENT 

Lemkuhi., John— August 27, 1864; not on muster out roll. 

Moore, James — January 5, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Morgan, Wm. H. — January 20, 1864; absent, sick at muster out. 

MiDDLETON, Edwin — January 18, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Morse, Nelson — April 8, 1864; absent, sick at muster out. 

Murphy, Wm. D. — January 5, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Moneghan, James J. — January 5, 1864; deserted, July 21, 1865. 

Miller, William A. — March 23, 1865 ; deserted, May 17, 1865. 

Miller, Henry — February 10, 1864; deserted, January 23, 1865. 

McLaughlin, Jas. C. — April 8, 1864, mustered out with Com- 

McLaughlin, Samuel — January 5, 1864; deserted, June 23, 
1865. 

Nolan, William — January 5, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

O'DoNNELL, Morris — January 5, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

OsBORN, Andrew P. — January 29, 1864; deserted, January 30, 
1864. 

Patterson, George — February i, 1864; deserted, June 30, 1865; 
returned July 8, 1865 ; mustered out with Company, August 
3- 1865. 

PuRCELL, William C. — March 22, 1864 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Williamsport, Pa. 

Phillips, Wm. M. — March 22, 1865; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Parrizo, Francis ]\I.— January 5, 1864; deserted, January 30, 
1864. 

Patton, Rody — January 5, 1864; deserted, January 30, 1864. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 289 

Price, John— February 2, 1864 ; deserted, February 6, 1864. 
QuEENAN, Patrick— April 8, 1864; absent, sick at muster out. 
RoDEHOFFER, Lewis— February 20, 1864; discharged, January 
24, 1865, for wounds received at Petersburg, \'a., June 18, 
1864; residing at Buffalo, N. Y. 
RiDGEWAY, MIOSES C— January 29, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's 

Certificate, March 24, 1865. 
RiTTENHOUSE, Peter— February 3, 1864 ; transferred to Company 

E ; date unknown. 
RoTH, Jacob S.— February 9, 1864; transferred to Company E, 

date unknown. 
RisTiNE, Jacob H.— January 5, 1864; deserted, June 23, 1865. 
Root, I^Iatthew— February 10, 1864; deserted, January 23. 

' 1865. 
Stewart, JoSEPH-January 29, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Philadelphia, Pa. 
Smith, FRANCis-January 30, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 
Scott, ARcniBALD-January 5- 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany. August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
Shields, ALBERT-February 15. 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 
Saxer, Philip— January 18, 1864 ; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865 ; residing at Philadelphia, Pa. 
Sneer, George W.-February 11, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. Hamp- 
ton, Ya. 
ScHOLENDORN, W. H.-March 2. 1864: mustered out with Com- 
pany. August 3. 1865. 
Snow, FkANKLiN-March 2, 1864; mustered out with Company; 

residing at Philadelphia, Pa. 
Steel, Edward— February 4, 1864; transferred to Company E; 
date unknown ; dead. 
16 



290 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Snyder, John — February 3, 1864; transferred to Company E; 
date unknown. 

Stockman, Thomas — February 9, 1864; transferred to Com- 
pany E, date unknown. 

Simrell, Henry — April 8, 1864; died at Washington, D. C, 
September i, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, Arling- 
ton, Va. 

Sanford, ChareES — February 2, 1864; deserted, February 6, 
1864. 

SiESBEE, Louis — April 8, 1864; deserted, July 10, 1865. 

Thomas, Wm. R. — February i, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Trice, Charles — April 8, 1864; discharged by general order, 
dated July 15, 1865 ; dead. 

Thompson, William — February 3, 1864; Deserted, February 6, 
1864. 

Thorp, Andrew M. — February 9, 1864; deserted, December 31, 
1864. 

VanupER, Robert W. — February i, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Weidner, Alex. — February 12, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Woods, John — January 5, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Williams, John — January 5, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Williams, George C. — February 8, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Weckert, George W. — January 22, 1864 ; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Wright, Alanson L. — April 8, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 



PENNSYLV'ANIA VOIvUNTEER INFANTRY 29I 

Wilson, Edward — February 3, 1864; deserted, February 6, 1864. 

Williams, Lewis — January 5, 1864; deserted, December 24, 
1864. 

Zimmerman, John — January 5, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Company G. 

W. Henry Carling — Captain; May 11, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Frank J. Deemer — First Lieutenant; May 11, 1864; mustered 
out with Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Wilkes- 
Barre, Pa. 

Miles M. Bradford — Second Lieutenant; Alay 11, 1864; mus- 
tered out with Company, August 3, 1865. 

George A. Wolcott — First Sergeant; April 7, 1864; mustered 
out with Company, August 3, 1865; Veteran; residing at 
Halstead, Pa. 

Albert Simpson — Sergeant; April 7, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Bradford, Pa. 

Stephen M. WhitbEck — Sergeant; April 7, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865; Veteran. 

John W. AL\rshall — Sergeant; April 7, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865 ; died 1899. 

John S. Jenkins — Sergeant; April 7, 1864; promoted from Cor- 
poral, February 6, 1865 ;. mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; residing at Pittston, Pa. 

Charles J. Bristol — Sergeant ; April 7. 1864 ; discharged, Feb- 
ruary 6, 1865, for wounds received in action. 

Levi Bennett — Corporal ; April 7, 1864 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Waymont, Pa. 

James Hatten — Corporal; April 7, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865; Veteran. 



292 HISTORY OF iS/TH REGIMENT 

WiLEiAM Webber — Corporal; April 7, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865; Veteran; dead. 

WiLUAM H. Daiey — Corporal; April 7, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865; residing at West Nanticoke, 
Pa. 

John G. Jones — Corporal; April 7, 1864; promoted to Corporal, 
February 6, 1865 ; mustered out with Company, August 3 ; 
1865; residing at Scranton, Pa. 

Frank Stanton — Corporal; May 17, 1864; promoted to Cor- 
poral, February 19, 1865 ; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; A^'eteran ; residing at Duryea, Pa. 

John Montgomery — Corporal: May 17, 1864; promoted to Cor- 
poral, February 24, 1865 ; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; \^eteran ; dead. 

Ai^BERT Hatten — Musician ; April 7, 1864; promoted to Corporal, 
February 24, 1865 ; mustered out with Company, August 
3, 1865; Veteran; residing at Binghampton, N. Y. 

Charles Hines — Musician; April 7, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Pittston, Pa. 

James M. Whitman — Musician; April 7, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865; residing at Lindaville, Pa. 

P^'ivatcs. 

Arnold, Henry — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

AkERLY, Lorsen — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; died 1898. 

Adams, Amos H. — April 7, 1864; discharged by general order, 
May 15, 1865; residing at Chinchilla, Pa. 

BoswELL, Joseph O. — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; died 1898. 

Benjamin, James O. — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 293 

Brundage, Homer X.— May 17, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865; dead. 
Bennett, Joseph— April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865 ; residing at Waymart, Pa. 
Benjamin, Asa— April 7, 1864; died at Petersburg, Va., August 
6, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, City Point, section 
E, division 2, grave 153. 
CoPELAND, David W.— April 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Blue Springs, Gage Co., 
Nebraska. 
Conrad, John— April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
Clark, Andrew J.— April 7, 1864 ; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865; residing at Scranton, Pa. 
Clark, William M.— April 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at South Gibson, Susque- 
hanna Co., Pa. 
Conway, James— April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
Cobb, Seth A.— April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865 ; Veteran ; residing at Waverly Pa. 
Conrad, James M.— April 7, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's Cer- 
tificate, July II, 1865; residing at Nicholson, Pa. 
Campbell, Henry— April 7, 1864 ; discharged, October 14, 1864; 

for wounds received in action ; dead. 
Davis, Nathan— April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
Davis, Lafayette— April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865 ; residing at Athens, Jewel Co., Kan. 
Davis, Moses— April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Moscow, Lackawanna Co., Pa 
DiMMiCK, Ami D.— :\Iay 7, 1864; mustered out with Company 
August 3, 1865; residing at Onento, N. Y. 



294 HISTORY OF 187TII REGIMENT 

Decker, Elias C. — May 7, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's Cer- 
tificate, November 24, 1864; residing at Gulf Summit, 
N. Y. 

EcKERSON, Peter — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; Veteran; residing at Merrill, Plymouth 
Co., Iowa. 

Edwards, Joseph B. — April 7, 1864; wounded at Petersburg. Va., 
June 18, 1864; absent in hospital at muster out. 

Ely, John — April 7, 1864; died at Washington, D. C, August 
28, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. 

FiSK, Henry — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865 ; residing at Nicholson, Pa. 

Feltz, John — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, August 
3, 1865 ; residing at Wyoming, Pa. 

Farnam, James — April 7, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's Certi- 
ficate, June 17, 1865 : died, 1898. 

Fry, Cornelius — May 7, 1864; killed June 18, 1864, at Peters- 
burg, Va. 

Felton, Everett — April 7, 1864: died at Washington, D. C, 
October 5, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, Arling- 
ton, Va. 

Goodrich, Mer. W. — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Henderson, John E. — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

HaydEn, Charles J. — April 7, 1864 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Hayden, Francis F. — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Uniondale, Pa. 

Hayden, Harvey' — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Halstead, Andrew — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 295 

HOLL.NBACH. WM.-April 7, 1864 ; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
Hitchcock, H. B.-April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865 ; residing at Jersey City, N.J. 
Hughes, Wm. J.-April 7, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's Cer- 
tificate. June 17, 1865; dead. 

X ^ .- -R ^nril 7 1864; transferred to io8th 
"^n^: «n "-!'se Jnd BattaHon, V. R. C Octobe. 

22, 1864; dead. 
HEND.BSON, WM. H.-April 7, .864; died at PhiladelpWa, Pa., 

November 21, 1864. 
Howard, JoHN-April 7, 1864; died February 15, 1865. 
Jay Douglass H.-April 7, 1864; promoted to Sergeant Major, 
' May I, 1865 ; residing at Scranton. Pa. 

,io„al Cemetery. City Point. Section E, D.v.stcn 2. Grave 

156. 
Kenkedv, M..RT. V.-.\pril 7. 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3. 1865 ; ^'eteran ; residing at Dalton. Fa. 
KENDRSW, CnR.ST.-April 7. .864 ; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 
K,RK, N0R>..VN- T.-April 7, 1864 •. m.tstered out with Co„,pany, 

August 3, 1865. 
KELLY, MiCHAEL-April J, 1864 ; discharged ^^ ^"^^ 

dated August 16. 1865; Veteran; deserted: tned b) Court 

Martial and dismissed. 
KENDREW. JofN-April 7. 1864; di.cl,arged on Surgeon's Cer- 

tificate. Tune 24. 1865. 
Kidder, Charles B.-April 7. 1864: deserted June 30. 1864: re- 
siding at Philipsburg, Kans. 
LAKKn..EE. Emery B.-April 7. 1864; mustered out with Company 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 



296 HISTORY OF 187TII REGIMKNT 

Lampman, George — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; dead. 

LaFraxce, John — April 7, 1864; deserted November 17, 1864; 
returned April 26, 1865 ; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865 ; residing at Scranton, Pa. 

MiELER, Sidney — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Miller, Henry W. — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Kewaunee, Henry Co., 111. 

Miller, Levi W. — April 7, 1864; discharged by special order, 
July I, 1865; dead. 

Markley, George — April 7, 1864 ; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing aj; Madisonville, Pa. 

MooNEY, Stephen — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 5 Veteran ; dead. 

Millard, Cyrus D. — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Nicholson, Pa. 

Miller, William H. — April 7, 1864; died July 11, 1864, at 
David's Island, N. Y. harbor. 

Merrill, Joseph — April 7, 1864; died at Philadelphia, Pa., Au- 
gust 21, 1864. 

McDoNNALD, Byron — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

McCoNNELL, James — May 17, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

NauglE, Minor — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865 ; residing at Espytown, Pa. 
NauglE, William — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865; dead. 
Oetzel, John G. — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 
Peck, John C. — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865 ; dead. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 297 

Payne, Francis W. — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Hopbottom, Pa. 

RiKER, Norman D. — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; residing at West Nicholson, Pa. 

Rosengrant, Perry — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Glenwood, Pa. 

Rose, Alonzo A. — April 7, 1864; deserted December 5, 1864. 

Sayer, William B. — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Frytown, Pa. 

Stewart, Thomas M. — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Scranton, Pa. 

Sears, Philip B. — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Oswego, N. Y. 

SwARTZ, Thomas — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Seigle, Peter — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Dunmore, Pa. 

SayER, Aaron — April 7, 1864; died at Washington, D. C, July 
24th, of wounds received at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864; 
buried in National Cemetery, Arlington. 

Tewksberry, Henry — x-\pril 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Taylor, Milton — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

TooKER, David K. — April 7, 1864 ; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Merrill, Plymouth Co., Iowa. 

Thorn, William — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Tiffany, Orin C. — April 7, 1864; killed at Petersburg. \'a., June 
18, 1864. 

Vergason, Ansel — April 7, 1864: died at Reading, Pa., May 7, 
1864. 

Westcott, James T. — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865; dead. 



298 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Westcott, Frederick M. — April 7, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Duryea, Luzerne 
Co., Pa.' 

Westcott, George W. — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Dales ville, Lackawanna 
Co.," Pa. 

Westcott, Lyman F. — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Westcott, Reuben G. — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Walters, Michael — April 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Halstead, Pa. 

Washburn, James — April 7, 1864; died at Fallstown, Pa., No- 
vember 24, 1864, of wounds received in action. 

Wright, Lester — April 7, 1864; died at Brooklin, Pa., Novem- 
ber 24, 1864. 

White, John W. — April 7, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's Cer- 
tificate, July 29, 1865 ; residing at Wisner, Neb. 

Yarrington, George E. — April 7, 1864 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

Company H. 

Chas. W. MutchlER — Captain; May 11, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 

Lucius H. Olmstead — First Lieutenant; May 11, 1864; dis- 
charged May 5, 1865 ; dead. 

Chas. F. Feuerstine— First Lieutenant; May 7, 1864; promoted 
from First Sergeant to Second Lieutenant, March 21, 
1865 ; to First Lieutenant, May 17, 1865 ; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865; residing at Wilkes- 
Barre, Pa. 

Daniel Keller — Second Lieutenant; January 20, 1864; dis- 
charged September 2, 1864; residing at National S. and S. 
Home, Davton, Ohio. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 299 

Porter Squires — Second Lieutenant; May 7, 1864; promoted 
from First Sergeant, May 19, 1865 ; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 I dead. 

Harrison J. Fickes — First Sergeant; May 7, 1864; promoted 
from Sergeant, May 19, 1865 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

William Clemens — Sergeant; May 7, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

Philip D. Edwards — Sergeant; April 8, 1864; promoted from 
Corporal, March 24, 1865; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Philadelphia, Pa. 

Tobias D. Yoder — Sergeant; May 7, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Eldridge D. Davis — Sergeant; May 7, 1864; promoted from 
Corporal, June i, 1865; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

George Dosch — Sergeant; May 7, 1864; killed at Petersburg, 
Va., June 18, 1864. 

Oliver E. Reynolds — Corporal ; May 7, 1864 ; wounded at 
Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864; absent in hospital at muster 
- out ; residing at West Nicholson, Pa. 

Samuel D. Bortel — Corporal ; May 7, 1864 ; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

John Butt — Corporal; May 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

John C. Allen — Corporal; May 7, 1864: mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran ; residing at Susque- 
hanna, Pa. 

Charles Stubbins — Corporal ; May 7, 1864 ; promoted to Cor- 
poral, March 21, 1865; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865 ; residing at York, Pa. 

Wm. H. Seiders — Corporal: May 7. 1864; promoted to Corporal, 
June I, 1865: mustered out with Comi)any, August 3. 
1865 ; Veteran. 



300 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

William M. Whitney — Corporal; May 7, 1864; promoted to 
Corporal, June i, 1865; mustered out with Company, Au- 
3, 1865. 

AsHER T. Hinds — Corporal; May 7, 1864; promoted to Corporal, 
June I, 1865 ; mustered out with Company, August 3, 1865. 

William C. DivEly — Corporal ; May 7, 1864 ; discharged by Gen- 
eral Order, May 24, 1865. 

Ira S. Gordon — Corporal; May 7, 1864; discharged by General 
Order, May 24, 1865. 

George W. TorbErt — Corporal; May 7, 1864; died at Philadel- 
phia, Pa., of wounds received at Petersburg, Va., June 
18, 1864. 

Priz'ates. 

Alexander, H. B. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 
Anderson, Andrew — April 6, 1864; transferred to Company B, 

May II, 1864. 
Bogner, Jacob — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 

Beebes, John — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Baldwin, George H. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

Baldwin, Jonathan M. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Baldwin, James T. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

Baldwin, Romanus — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 > residing at Shanksville, Pa. 

Berkey, Alex. J. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Johnstown, Pa. 

Berkey, John — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865 ; residing at Hillsdale, Pa. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 30I 

Beaverson, David — May 7, 1864; wounded at Petersburg, Va., 
June 18, 1864; absent in hospital at muster out; residing at 
York, Pa. 

Baltzer, John — May 7, 1864; missing in action at Petersburg, 
Va., June 18, 1864. 

Conrad, Rufus C. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Glenwood, Pa. 

Cantebury, Geo. W. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 5 residing at Scranton, Pa. 

CoLUER, John O. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; residing at Loysville, Pa. 

Custer^ Lewis — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865. 

Conrad, Henry W. — August 17, 1864; discharged by General 
Order, July 15, 1865. 

CourTright, Daniel — May 7, 1864 ; died at Alexandria, \'a., 
July II, 1864; Grave 2,380. 

Dunn, George M. — ^Nlay 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Dellinger, Jonathan — May 7, 1864 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, x\ugust 3, 1865. 

Dings, Smith — April 4, 1864; died at Petersburg, Va., August 
7, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, City Point, Section 
A, Division 2, Grave 90. 

Derr, Richard W. — INIay 7, 1864; died at Philadelphia, Pa., Oc- 
tober 5, 1864; burial record, December i, 1864. 

Fletcher, Joseph B.— May 7, 1864; deserted June i, 1864; re- 
turned April 27, 1865 ; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865. 

Fritz, Samuel — IMay 7. 1864; mustered out with Company. Au- 
gust 3, 1865. 

Flegle, Jeremiah— May 7. 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; \^eteran. 



302 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

FiNNECY^ Franklin — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Shanksville, Pa. 

Fox, William E. — May 7, 1864; deserted August 20, 1864. 

Gardner, Barney A. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Glessner, Charles — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

GooDLiN, Wm. O. — May 7, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's Cer- 
tificate, December 27, 1864. 

HiPPLEj Benjamin — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Harrisburg, Pa. 

Hass, Simon — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865. 

Hopper, Joseph — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Hunt, John L. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

Hall, William S. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Hartman, John H. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Hartman, Jeremiah — May 7, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's 
Certificate, February 20, 1865. 

IrELEy, Samuel — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Middletown, Pa. 

Johnson, William — May 7, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's Cer- 
tificate, May 6, 1865. 

Keene, Conrad — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; Veteran. 

Leese, Levi — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, August 
3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

Lehr, Philip — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 303 

LauER^ Benjamin — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Lehman, Henry J. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; residing at Hooverstown, Pa. 

Lape_, Herman W. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Berhn, Pa. 

Meily, John H. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; Veteran. 

Miller, LorEn — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Miller, William H. — May 7, 1864 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

Martin, Adam — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

Miller, Charles— May 7, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's Cer- 
tificate, February 26, 1865. 

Mumma, John — May 7, 1864; died at Philadelphia, Pa., October 
II, 1864. 

McReynolds, And. J. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

McCoRD, Thomas B.— May 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865; residing at Harrisburg, Pa. 

McGiNLEY, John H.— May 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Nicholas, George— May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Nicholson, Pa. 

Nagle, Jackson— May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Olewiler, Christopher— May 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 18^5. 

Peck, Charles L.— May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 



304 HISTORY OF lO/TH REGIMENT 

Powell, Jacob D. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

PylE, David — April 6, 1864; transferred to Company B, Alay 11, 

1864. 
PylE, Abraham L. — April 6, 1864; transferred to Company B, 

May II, 1864. 

RosENBERGER, Jno. J. — April 16, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Ream, John — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, August 
3, 1865; Veteran; residing at Shanksville, Pa. 

RiNGLER, Jefferson — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Reed, John — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, August 

3, 1865. 
Reynolds, John — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 

Reynolds, Albert G. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran ; residing at West Nichol- 
son, Pa. 

Reynolds, Wm. N. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Tunkhannock, Pa. 

Reynolds, Jos. W. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Rynearson, Cornelius — IMay 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Carbondale, Pa. 

Rupp, Abraham J. — May 7, 1864; transferred to Company F, 
May II, 1864. 

Rolls, Peter G. — May 7, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's Cer- 
tificate, February 26, 1865. 

Stout, Oliver — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865. 

Smith, Truxton — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3. 1865. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 305 

Stevens, Ebenezer M.— May 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Stedg, Levi — May 7, 1864 ; mustered out with Company, August 
3. 1865. 

Smith, John L. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Skiles, James— May 7, 1864; wounded at Petersburg, Va., June 
18, 1864; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, January 
7, 1865; discharged on Surgeon's Certificate, September 
12, 1865. 

Shank, Charles — ^larch 25, 1864; absent, sick, at muster out; 
Veteran ; residing at Shanksville, Pa. 

Sliders, Israel — May 7, 1864: mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; Veteran; died May 3, 1904. 

Seiders, Joseph — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

SpanglER, John — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Stevens, Henry — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Smith, Frank— May 7, 1864; promoted to Quartermaster Ser- 
geant, ^lay II, 1864. 

SwANGER, John W. — May 7, 1864; died at City Point, Va., Sep- 
tember, 1864; burial record, September 12, 1864, buried 
in Poplar Grove National Cemetery. Petersburg. Division 
C, Section D, Grave 55. 

Shenberger, Henry- May 7, 1864; died at City Point. \'a., Sep- 
tember 7, 1864. 

Titus, Robert C. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Troup, Jacob E. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Torbet, Wm. H.— April 6, 1864; transferred to Company B, 
May II, 1864. 
17 



306 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

ToBRET, Isaac W. — April 6, 1864; transferred to Company B, 
May II, 1864. 

Tiffany, Curtis W. — May 7, 1864; died at Petersburg, Va., July 
29, 1864. 

Whitney, Ebenezer B. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Hopbottom, Pa. 

Williams, Henry — May 7, 1864; wounded at Petersburg, Va., 
June 18, 1864; absent at muster out. 

Wilson, Jacob — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

Wolf, Henry J. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Whitebeck, M. D. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

WoLFORD, John — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

WoY, John — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, August 
3, 1865 ; residing at Johnstown, Pa. 

Will, Daniel — March 25, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; Veteran. 

Wails, Thomas W. — April i, 1864; transferred to Company B, 
May II, 1864. 

Whiting, Henry S. — May 7, 1864; died at Philadelphia, Pa., 
July 5, 1864. 

Will, Benjamin F. — March 31, 1864; died at Petersburg, Va., 
July 28, 1864; buried at City Point. 

Whitney, Orange P. — May 7, 1864; missing in action at Peters- 
burg, Va., August 21, 1864. 

ZeiglER, John A. — May 7, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 307 

Company I. 

Thomas E. Little — Captain; July 9, 1863; discharged by Spe- 
cial Order, September 23, 1864. 

Ransford B. Webb — Captain ; May 11, 1864; promoted from Sec- 
ond Lieutenant, February 6, 1865 ; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Wellsboro, Pa. 

Silas B. CarmER — First Lieutenant; May 11, 1864; discharged 
by Special Order, September 23, 1864; died February 2, 
1904. 

Monroe P. Crosby— First Lieutenant; May 11, 1864; promoted 
from First Sergeant, February 10, 1865; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 

William E. Zinn— Second Lieutenant; February 10, 1864; pro- 
moted from Sergeant Major, March 29, 1865; mustered 
out with Company, August 3, 1865 ; died 1904. 

John A. Steel— First Sergeant; May 4, 1864; promoted from 

Sergeant, February 24, 1865 ; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 
Jerome B. Starry— Sergeant ; May 4, 1864; mustered out with 

Company, August 3, 1865 ; dead. 
Merritt J. Cole— Sergeant ; May 4, 1864 mustered out with 

Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Windham, Pa. 
George W. Rice— Sergeant ; ]\Iay 4, 1864; mustered out with 

Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at St. Paul, Minn. 
Hiram H. Nickerson— Sergeant ; May 4, 1864; promoted from 

Corporal, February 24, 1865 ; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 
Benjamin F. McKinney— Corporal; May 4. 1864; mustered out 

with Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Sayer, Pa. 
Stephen V. Martin— Corporal ; May 4, 1864; mustered out 

with Company, August 3, 1865. 
Horace W. Perkins— Corporal; May 4, 1864; mustered out with 

Company, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 



308 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

William H. Huss — Corporal; May 4, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Melvin R. Heath — Corporal; May 4, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Spencer Crittenden — Corporal; May 4, 1864; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Wellsboro, Pa. 

CoLEEY Shriver — Corporal; May 4. 1864; promoted to Corporal, 
February 24, 1865 ; mustered out with Company, August 
3. 1865.' 

James W. Byers — Corporal; May 4, 1864; killed at Petersburg, 
Va., June 18, 1864. 

Albert F. Packard — Corporal ; May 4, 1864 ; discharged on Sur- 
geon's Certificate, July 23, 1865 ; residing at Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

Oscar F. Gandy — Musician; May 4, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran ; died January 18, 1904. 

John M. Hirst — Musician; May 4, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Priz'ates. 

Ayres, George — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865. 

AiTCHER, Jeremiah — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

AsHENFELTER, Geo. N. — May 4, 1864; transferred to Veteran 
Reserve Corps, March 2, 1865; dead. 

Baty, John — May 4, 1864; absent, sick at muster out. 

Brow^n, William — May 4, 1864 ; absent, sick at muster out. 

Bowles, John — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865. 

Best, Charles W. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 309 

BoYLES, Robert M. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Harrisburg, Pa. 

Beecher, Jacob — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Brosious, William — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

BiTNER, John C. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Bausman, Albert — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Ball, Guy D. — May 4, 1864; killed at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 

1864. 
Balfour, Albert C. — May 4, 1864; died at City Point, Va., June 

25, 1864. 

Bausman, Lewis J. — May 4, 1864; died November 27, 1864; 
burial record, at Philadelphia, Pa., December 17, 1864. 

Bordman, Verus N. — May 4, 1864; died August 14, 1864; burial 
record at Beverly, New Jersey, August 17, 1864. 

Brown, James — May 4, 1864; died October 5, 1864; buried in 
National Cemetery, Alexandria, Va., Grave 2,']i2. 

Cole, Haley — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865. 

CarmER, Thomas L.— ^lay 4, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Athens, Pa. 

Clarry, Samuel — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Carmer, Albert — ^lay 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; residing at Athens, Pa. 

Chappel, John C. — May 4, 1864: mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Carpenter, Ira D. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 



310 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Carpenter, Daniel R.— May 4, 1864; absent in hospital at 
muster out. 

Cary, Daniel D. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Campbell, Joel — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Crowley, William — May 4, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's Cer- 
tificate, March 21, 1865. 

Christian, Philip T. — May 4, 1864; drowned May 27, 1864. 
Cummings, Michael — March 31, 1864; deserted April 15, 1864. 

Chase, David G. — May 4, 1864; deserted May 20, 1864. 

Dimmick, Geo. W. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Ansonia, Tioga Co., Pa. 

De^chard, Jacob R. — May 4, 1864; absent in hospital at muster 
out ; residing at S. and S. Home, Erie, Pa. 

Darling, Henry — May 4, 1864 ; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

DenseL, Levi — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, Au- 
gust 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

EvERiTT, Chas. G. W. — May 4, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's 
Certificate, June 20, 1865. 

Ford, Jerome B. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Ford, James C. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Fox, James R. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, y\u- 
gust 33, 1865 '■ Veteran. 

Forrest, Asa B. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Raleigh. N. C. 

Forrest, Joseph C. — May 4, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's Cer- 
tificate, January 16, 1865. 

Grandy, Noah E. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 3 II 

Gladding, Samuel — May 4, 1864; absent in hospital at muster 
out. 

Geiger, George W. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Mahanoy City, Pa. 

Harsh, Cornelius — May 4, 1864; discharged by General Order, 
July 8, 1865 ; residing at Waverly, N. Y. 

Harris, Truman — May 4, 1864 ; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

HowLAND, Richard M. — March 25, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

Hassel, Lewis — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Mahanoy City, Pa. 

Haydon, Thomas — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

HaughEy, James — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Hoover, Daniel — May 4, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's Cer- 
tificate, July 23, 1865. 

Harsh, Sylvester — Alay 4, 1864; discharged by General Order, 
June 19, 1865. 

Hurst, Levi — May 4, 1864; died at New York, July 28. 1864, of 
wounds received in action ; buried in Cypress Hill Ceme- 
tery, L. L 

Keller, Chas. A. F. — May 4, 1864 ; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

KoiiLER, Jacob — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company. Au- 
gust 3, 1865; residing at Bowmansdale, Pa. 

Layton, Thomas W. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865; residing at Ulster, Pa. 

London, Robert — May 4, 1864: mustered out with Company. 
August 3, 1865. 

Landis, Aaron M. — May 4, 1864 : mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Harrisburg. Pa. 



312 HISTORY OF iS/TH REGIMENT 

Lewis, Wm. H. H. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; Veteran ; at National Soldiers' and Sailors' 
Home, Dayton, Ohio. 

Landy, John — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, August 

3. 1865. 
Markley, Taylor — May 4, 1864 ; absent, sick at muster out. 

Merril, Nehemiah N. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Chatham's Run, Pa. 

Mauk, Owen E. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Allentown, Pa. 

MiIvLER, William W. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at North Rome, Pa. 

MoRTH, Frank — March 31, 1864; deserted, April 15, 1864. 

McBraiTy, Charles — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

McCosh, John W. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Park, Nicholas — May 4, 1864; died, August 5, 1864; buried in 

Cypress Hill Cemetery, L. I. ; grave 1,518. 
Pegg, James W. — May 4, 1864; deserted, January 2, 1865. 

Richards, William E. — May 4, 1864; discharged, June 8, 1865; 
expiration of term. 

Shelton, Robert G. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Sheively, William — May 4, 1864 ; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Stone, Dwight F. — May 4, 1864; discharged by special order. 
May 24, 1865. 

Smith, Charles E. — May 4, 1864; died July 20, 1864. 

SaudERS, Robert — May 4, 1864; discharged by general order, 
June 15, 1865. 

Steel, William — May 4, 1864; died July, 2^, 1864; burial 
record, June 2j, 1864. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 313 

VansicE, Andrew — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; Veteran ; residing at Athens, Pa. 

VosBURGH, Thos. L. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

ViALL, Francis — May 4, 1864 ; absent in Hospital at muster out. 

ViALL, George — May 4, 1864 ; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Verner, Giles F. — May 4, 1864; discharged by special order. 
May 25, 1865. 

WiNEGATE, Moses — May 4, 1864 ; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Warburton, James A. — May, 1864; discharged by special order, 
July 23, 1865. 

Walker, William T. — May 4, 1864; transferred to Veteran Re- 
serve Corps, December 23, 1864; discharged by general 
order, August i, 1865; residing at Oakville, Cumberland 
Co., Pa. 

Company K. 

George G. Lovett — Captain; February 26, 1864; promoted from 
Second Lieutenant. Company C, May 1 1, 1864 ; discharged ; 
restored to rank by special act of Congress, June 3, 1904; 
died January i, 1905. 

Alex. Blackburn — First Lieutenant; May 11, 1864; mustered 
out with Company; August 3, 1865. 

George S. Walker— Second Lieutenant; April 12, 1864; pro- 
moted from First Sergeant, January i, 1865; mustered out 
with Company, August 3, 1865; wounded, June 18, 1864; 
residing at Tioga, Tioga Co., Pa. 

LucEAN BothvvELL — Fifst Sergeant ; May 4. 1864 ; promoted to 
First Sergeant, January i, 1865; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

Thomas Ramsey— Sergeant ; May 4, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 



314 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Charles Wesley — Sergeant; May 4, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

Samuel Hook — Sergeant; May 4, 1864; promoted to Sergeant, 
January i, 1865 ; mustered out with Company, August 3, 
1865; Veteran; residing at Altoona, Pa. 

George Doan — Sergeant; May 4, 1864; promoted to Sergeant, 
January i, 1865; mustered out with Company, August 3, 
1865 ; residing at Elmira, N. Y. 

Isaac B. Bowser — Sergeant ; May 4, 1864 ; discharged on Sur- 
geon's Certificate; date unknown; Pennsylvania Soldiers' 
and Sailors' Home, Erie, Pa. 

William Lewars — Corporal; May 4, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865. 

Philip Carman — Corporal; May 4, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865; Veteran; residing at Mountain- 
dale, Pa. 

Jay Whitehead — Corporal ; May 4, 1864 ; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865; residing at Canton, Pa. 

Stephen Sawyer — Corporal; May 4, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

John J. Howland — Corporal; May 4, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

John Dunn — Corporal ; May 4, 1864 ; promoted to Corporal, 
May I, 1865 ; mustered out with Company, August 3, 1865. 

Dewitt C. Johnson — Corporal; May 4, 1864; promoted to Cor- 
poral, July I, 1865; mustered out with Company, August 
3, 1865 ; residing at Lock Haven, Pa. 

Edwin Rodgers — Corporal; May 4, 1864; mustered out with 
Company ,_ August 3, 1865. 

Samuel Loury — Musician; May 4, 1864; mustered out with 
Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Lock Haven, Pa. 

Privates. 

AmERMAn, O. v.— May 4, 1864; killed at Petersburg, Va., June 
18, 1864; buried in National Cemetery, City Point, Va., 
section E, division i, grave 26. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 315 

Austin, Jeremiah— May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865 ; residing at Ogdenburg, Pa. 
Bacon, Leander— May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 
Baltowser, Zach. T.— Alay 13, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's 

Certificate; date unknown; residing at Harrisburg, Pa. 
Bell, William J.— May 4, 1864; transferred to Company A, 

May II, 1864. 
Bowers, Adam— May 4, 1864; died August 8, 1864; buried in 

Cypress Hill Cemetery, L. I. 
Boyd, James— May 4, 1864; died at Washington, D. C, July 18, 
1864, of wounds received at Petersburg, Va., June i8, 
1864; buried in National Cemetery, Arlington. 
Barker, Prescott— ^lay 4. 1864; died at Philadelphia, Pa., 

December 8, 1864. 
Case, Alexander E.— May 4, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 
Collins, Samuel P.— May 4, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 
CrEe, John A.— ^lay 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 
CoBAUGH, Jacob B.— May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 
CoNNELL, John C— May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company. 

August 3, 1865. 
CuLP, PIenry— May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 
Campbell, John J.— May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 
CoRTWRiGHT, WiLLiAM-May 4, 1864; mustcred out with Com- 
pany, August 3. 1865. 
Cox, Isaac— May 4, 1864: transferred to Company F. May 11, 
1864. 



3l6 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Carson, Alexander — May 4, 1864; transferred to Company E, 
May 10, 1864. 

Chestnut, William — January 5, 1864; deserted, December i, 
1864. 

Dann, Anson — Alay 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

DiSHONG, Paul — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Davis, Thomas M. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

DiSHONG, Noah A. — May 4, 1864; discharged by general order. 
May 3, 1865. 

DoANE, Edward — May 4, 1864; discharged by general order; 
date unknown; residing at Mansfield, Pa. 

Evans, Jacob — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Ellis, Charles B. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

FiGART, Benjamin — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Fry, Daniel — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, August 
3, 1865. 

Fulton, Patrick P. — March 30, 1864; never joined the Com- 
pany. 

GeiTEr, WinField S. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Grafius, George — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Williamsport, Pa. 

Graves, Thomas — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Garrison, William — April 8, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Alberts, Pa. 

Garman, Adam — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Mountaindale, Pa. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 31/ 

Green, Nathaniel P.— April 8, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's 

Certificate; date unknown. 
GeiTER, Christian— September 5, 1864; discharged by general 

order, July 15, 1865. 
Gardener, Johnson— April 4, 1864; deserted, April 2.-], 1864. 
GoETCHius, Hiram D.— May 4, 1864; deserted, October 20, 1864. 
Hollen, Joseph R.— May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865; residing at Mountaindale, Pa. 
Hopkins, William— May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 
Hartman, John— May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 
Hamilton, William— May 4, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's 

Certificate ; date unknown. 
Harp, Samuel— May 4, 1864; transferred to Company F, May 

II. 1864. 
Jones, John J.— Alay 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 
Kennelly, Daniel— May 10, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 
Kennelly, James— May 10, 1864 ; mustered out with Company, 

August 3, 1865. 
KuHN, George W.— May 10, 1864; discharged by special order, 

July 3, 1865. 
KrishER, Benj. F.— May 4, 1864; transferred to Company E, 

May 10, 1864; residing near Dayton, Ohio. 
Knicht, Frederick— May 10, 1864; died at City Point, August 
II, 1864, of wounds received at Petersburg. \'a.. June 18, 
1864; burial record, August 2, 1864. 
Louder, Emanuel— May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company. 

August 3, 1865 ; residing at Mountaindale. Pa. 
LovELL, William N.— May 4. 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany. August 3. 1865. 



3l8 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Lenig, Josiah — ]\Iay 4, 1864 ; died at Philadelphia, Pa., Septem- 
ber 20, 1865. 

Leaman, Joseph — April 12, 1864; absent, sick at muster out. 

LaBarth, John M, — May 4, 1864; transferred to Company F, 
May II, 1864. 

Leaman, James — April 12, 1864; deserted, April 27, 1864. 

Lewis, John — March 30, 1864; never joined Company. 

Myers, Benjamin F. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Mountaindale, Pa. 

Malanopy, John — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

MiivLER, Jacob B. — April 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Morgan, Wili^iam — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

Minnich, John W. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Dillville, Pa. 

Miller, Hiram — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Mead, Daniel D. — May 4, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's Cer- 
tificate ; date unknown. 

McElhose, Amer — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

McDonald, Philip C. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

McCarty, John — April i, 1864; never joined the Company. 

O'Brien, Joseph — May 4, 1864; deserted; returned; mustered 
out with Company, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Fostoria, 
Iowa. 

Paulhamus, S. W. — May 4, 1864; transferred to Veteran Re- 
serve Corps, September 25, 1864; discharged by general 
order, December 4, 1865. 



PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 3I9 

Reese, Thomas M.— May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Rowland, Elias — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

RoDGERS, Benjamin — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Rhodes, Cornelius — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Duncannon, Pa., R. F. D. 
No. I. 

Ross, Joseph — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; Veteran. 

Simpson, Samuel — May 4, 1864; discharged by general order, 
July 31, 1865. 

Spaulding, W. W. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Seely, Malvin H. — May 4, 1864 ; absent, sick at muster out. 

Spencer, Webster — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865; residing at Canton, Bradford Co., Pa. 

SwENK, Henry — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Sowers, William H. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Smith, Philip — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Stark, Chauncey — April 19, 1864; absent, sick at muster out. 

Shearer, Thos. L. G.— May 4, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's 
Certificate; date unknown. 

Spare, Abram— May 4, 1864; discharged; date unknown. 

Swerger, Nicholas — May 4, 1864; transferred to Company A, 
May II, 1864. 

Scott, Robert — May 4, 1864; died August 8, 1864. 

Strong, Samuel W.— May 4, 1864; deserted, January 10, 1865. 



320 HISTORY OF 187TH REGIMENT 

Spade, George P. — ^lay 4, 1864: deserted, January 10, 1865. 
Searfoss, David — April 18, 1864; deserted, July 2, 1865. 

TiTMAN, Jacob — April 8, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Thomas, Frederick M. — May 4, 1864 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; residing at Washington, D. C. 

Travis, John J. — May 4, 1864; transferred to Company A, May 
II, 1864. 

UlmER, Joseph B. — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Verguson, Newell J. — iMay 4, 1864 ; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865 ; Veteran. 

Worden, Clark V. — May 4, 1864 ; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Warpield, Thomas — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Wesley, Daniel — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Weidley, Frederick — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Com- 
pany, August 3, 1865. 

Weaver, John — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865 ; residing at Philadelphia, Pa. 

Wissinger, Isaac — May 4, 1864; mustered out with Company, 
August 3, 1865. 

Wesley, Michael — May 4, 1864; discharged on Surgeon's Cer- 
tificate ; date unknown. 

Woolheater, Annas — May 4, 1864; died, June, of wounds re- 
ceceived at Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864; buried in 
National Cemetery, City Point. 

Wallace, William E. — May 4, 1864; died at City Point, Va., 
August 10, 1864. 

Wallace, John V. — May 4, 1864; died January 19, 1865. 

Yoder, Daniel — May 4, 1864; died July 3, 1864; buried in 
National Cemetery, City Point, Va. 



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